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Information and Codes in Biochemistry

Biochemists traditionally accept the view that life is an extremely complex form of chemistry (the Chemical paradigm), a view which implies that genetic information and the genetic code are but metaphorical concepts because they cannot be described by physical quantities.

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Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model

Barbieri, Marcello. 2015. Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Ribosome-Oriented Model. Biological Theory 10 (4): 301–10. doi:10.1007/s13752-0...

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