/sci/ - Science & Math

Why are codons so degenerate?

senior biochem/bioinformatics

Like sophomore year, when I took genetics we learned the mRNA to protein translation scheme. It's the only thing in biology that screams "designed," or wrong.

That is until I learned more. Like post-translational modification, production of selenocysteine and a sleu of other resides that can be made. Not to mention the incredibly complicated scheme that takes out the intron material. The largest segments of DNA that are highly conserved but don't code for shit. That's imbues the feel of the science I know. Seemingly simple explanation of a topic, that you later learned out is riddled with exceptions.

Inb4 [citation needed] and other trolls who make /sci/ shit.