How genes work.

Offers a computer analogy for life's operating system, DNA. Topics of codons, the double helix, and protein in ribosome; Suggestion of a copying mechanism for human genetic material; How DNA is transcribed into a molecule called messenger RNA.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Economist Vol. 356; no. 8177; pp. 4 - 6
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 7/1/2000
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