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yes, i think there are still thinks to be accounted for

Submitted by Kee Hyun Kim on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 11:09am.

Like Luisiana mentioned, I was surprised and also impressed how big of a difference a change in something as miniscule as nitrogen base can make to its parent cell and organism.

This led me to ponder upon the question of what causes such change to take place? If everything works out as they are supposed to in the DNA/RNA replication process.. (such as g going with g, a going with a) this kind of alternation should not happen.

So what causes such things to happen? is it that Thymine can at special circumstances be attracted to Glycine? or is it that it is a Thymine on the outside but has the chracterisitcs of a Glycine...

With chemistery being involved, things are getting a bit more complicated than before but i think this would be a interesting topic worthy of future discussion

andy

 

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