linkedin post 2013-12-26 06:30:26

THE SOURCE CODE. “The language of DNA is digital but not binary. Encoding has 0 and 1 to work with (hence the ‘bi’nary). DNA has 4 positions T, C, G and A; whereas a digital byte is mostly 8 binary digits, a DNA ‘byte’ (called a codon) has 3 digits. Because each digit can have 4 values instead of 2, a DNA codon has 64 possible values, compared to a binary byte which has 256. A typical DNA codon is ‘GCC’ which codes the amino acid alanine.” Together these string together to make proteins, and all living things.”
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