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To: Tantumergo
s you are no doubt aware, his work is more related to the structure and operation of sub-cellular organelles.

No, I'm not aware of that. Back when Behe was actually doing science, he was looking at the p. chem of DNA. I don't count his popular press and un-peer-reviewed meanderings about flagella.

Why does a group of 3 nucleotides, when read by a ribosome, encode for a particular amino acid?

The recognition anticodon of tRNA is three nucleotides. Each tRNA is specific for one amino acid, and it's what recognizes the codon. Two would be an insufficient number to account for 20 amino acids.

229 posted on 05/25/2005 10:01:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

"Each tRNA is specific for one amino acid, and it's what recognizes the codon."

Yes, but WHY does a tRNA code for an amino acid? What is there about it that says that this group of nucleotides "means" this amino acid?


233 posted on 05/25/2005 10:13:47 AM PDT by Tantumergo
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