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Fascinating. Multiple different DNA based instruction set architectures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_genetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by king07828 7y ago
Fascinating. Multiple different DNA based instruction set architectures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_genetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_genetics
Genetic Code Variants
For most organisms the "stop codons" are "UAA", "UAG", and "UGA". In vertebrate mitochondria "AGA" and "AGG" are also stop codons, but not "UGA", which codes for tryptophan instead. "AUA" codes for isoleucine in most organisms but for methionine in vertebrate mitochondrial mRNA.
wikipedia cites to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi?