Solved cryptogram
The instructions for building a person are written with an alphabet of only four letters.
Biology Facts, sourced to National Human Genome Research Institute.
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What it means
Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine pair off across the two strands of the double helix, and the order in which they appear is the message. Three letters at a time specify one amino acid, which gives sixty four possible triplets for twenty amino acids and a stop signal, so the code carries some redundancy. The same code is used by essentially every living thing on Earth.
The claim comes from National Human Genome Research Institute.
- SourceNational Human Genome Research Institute
- CollectionBiology Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length74 letters, 19 unique
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