Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1975 · 677 citations · 16 references
Life SciencesEvolutionary BiologyGeneticsEvolutionary GeneticsEvolutionary TheoryMolecular EvolutionAmino Acid StructureEvolutionEvolutionary ComputationGenetic CodeProtein EvolutionSequence EvolutionAmino Acid Biosynthesis EvolutionAmino AcidsCo-evolutionEmergenceGenetic Code EvolutionMolecular Evolutionary ModelsOrigin Of The Genetic CodeProtein Sequence Evolution
The theory is proposed that the structure of the genetic code was determined by the sequence of evolutionary emergence of new amino acids within the primordial biochemical system.
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