By bloid
via weblog.raganwald.com
Published: Mar 17 2008 / 12:14
The frustrating thing about genetic code is that it is really, really easy to understand what it does in the small. Amino acids come in triplets called codons. In the gene above, the first codon and last codon are beginning and end markers, like curly braces in Algol-derived programming languages. The template manufactures a small piece of RNA. This mechanism is very well understood at this scale of behaviour. However, when you build from the DNA up to the whole organism, the overall behaviour is a mystery, just as the behaviour of snow is very difficult to predict from the molecular properties of water and air molecules.
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