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DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth.

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The Genetic Alphabet of Amino Acids

Stephen freeland is a biologist at the university of maryland, baltimore county. Freeland: The genetic alphabetis probably not as rigid or fixed as we thought. Anything that sortof satisfies a set of certa chemical criteria might work. If this can work for the genetic alphabet, then that's pretty exciting and interesting.

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