I have a microbiology exam tomorrow which I have yet to study for. There is way too much information to start now. We have to know a paper by someone who’s last name is Brenner, why we have to know a paper from the 50’s I have no idea. The paper is interesting, it is about proving that DNA codons are in triplets. He does this by doing a few math computations that are very simple. The only reason that the paper has any relevance is that he was the first to publish this thought. It didn’t prove anything about how codons work or their importance. It just proves that codes come in sets of 3 nucleic acids. This is a very informal paper and it almost just seems like the author typed up what he was just scribbling down on his desk one afternoon. I really don’t understand why we need this for our test and why this is important to the class that I am taking. I already know that codons are in sets of three, this has been repeatedly taught in almost all of my science courses since high school. The paper doesn’t even necessarily prove what codons are, it just proves that based off other properties that they most likely function in groups of 3.
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