[WildHorseCrash]

Ultimately from "codex," latin for a wooden tablet or book... why?

I do have some idea about how proteins are made. What's the question?

I jumped from DNA to RNA because I had the glycine example handy. Neither, however, is encoded information such that information theory has any relevance, which, if I remember correctly, was the context of the original post.

[AndrewC]

I jumped from DNA to RNA because I had the glycine example handy. Neither, however, is encoded information such that information theory has any relevance, which, if I remember correctly, was the context of the original post.

Well, I think you are mistaken. The original context stated that DNA had coded information in post 170. You explicitly denied this by stating in post 236...Your majory error here is the belief that DNA is encoded information. It is not. It is one, big, long, complex biochemical problem. . You then proceeded to give a mistaken example containing ... run it through the magical RNA machine, you actually get the amino acid glycine. You actually create the stuff.

That particular sequence does not create glycine. I suggest you review the subject of mRNA, tRNA, DNA, the transcription/translation process and the ribosome. I also suggest you review the process of activating tRNA and gene splicing used in the following manner The exons are the coding region and are put back together to make the gene that is transcribed and translated into a protein. Sometimes the same gene can be spliced different ways to give rise to different proteins.

Visual aids.

Role of the Ribosome