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. 1982 Mar;12(1):71-80.
doi: 10.1007/BF00926913.

Ambiguity and the evolution of the genetic code

R R Kocherlakota, N D Acland

Ambiguity and the evolution of the genetic code

R R Kocherlakota et al. Orig Life. 1982 Mar.

Abstract

The evolution of the genetic code is an extremely complex problem. The addition of a new method by which the code could evolve, however, allows much to be explained about the way in which the present codes (gamma 3 and gamma 3) originated. The idea that ambiguity would allow the length of the codon to change is very useful, since it predicts the distribution of the 4-blocs and 2-blocs in the code, determines where variations in the code are probable, and presents a scenario for the evolution of the code.

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