ARTIFICIAL CODE. “New methods of synthetic biology have recently allowed substantial artificial alteration of the code in bacteria. Although the fitness of the bacteria with altered codes has not been thoroughly studied, their viability itself seems to support the view that the fitness of different codes might not differ dramatically, so that the (near) universality of the standard genetic code is likely to stem from high fitness barriers separating it from other codes, or in other words, low fitness of the intermediates.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022