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Your genetic code has lots of 'words' for the same thing – information theory may help explain the redundancies

  • Written by Subhash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
imageThe same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code.Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Nearly all life, from bacteria to humans, uses the same genetic code. This code acts as a dictionary, translating genes into the amino acids used to build proteins. The universality...

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