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added my week 2 answers

Vkuehn at 07:20, 6 September 2013

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 *The genetic code is like a computer code due to its ability of handling all types of “programs” within the body. The genetic code is crucial for the function of the human being, so it is the software of the body as computers are in need of operating system software to continue their function.
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		+	#The biggest discovery I made from these readings was definitely the extent to which bacteria was used to discover and understand the genetic code. It may be a little pretentious of me, but I had always thought as anything DNA related to have been found through studying humans alone. However, it obviously makes perfect sense to use bacteria as the source of study, since they are simpler, easy to reproduce, etc.
		+	#Most of the Article ''Deciphering the Genetic Code'' was difficult for me to understand. There was a large volume of terms that I had no idea what they meant. Some I googled, some I just gave up on. The writing style in general was also not ideal, as the author tended to wander from topic to topic, the information within could have easily been conveyed in perhaps half as many words.
		+	#From what I could understand, it seemed that it was discovered thought a long and painful process of trial and error. Various combinations of mRNA were mixed together and every time a successful bonding with amino acids took place it was recorded, until all 64 combinations had been found.
		+	#The genetic code is basically the same as a computer code. The molecules are the 1's and 0's and the way that they combine together as DNA is the language (like Java, C++, or Ruby for a computer). Just like in a computer code, the smallest change in how the words(letters) are put together can have massive impact on what the code does. The best example from the readings is from the last article, when the author states that "errors can mean that embryos fail to develop at all - a fatal flaw in the operating system that causes the human system to crash as it boots up".
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	*''What is the biggest discovery that I made from these readings?''		*''What is the biggest discovery that I made from these readings?''

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 The thing that I found surprising about the readings is the way Mendel's work was so under appreciated and ignored when they were in search of answers to genetic and hereditary questions. His work is taught to everyone studying biology today and was so methodical and accurate that it is surprising that people did not pay more attention to it when it was published.
 *What part of the readings did I understand the least?
+I had the most trouble understanding the details in the Nirenberg reading. It was very dense with biochemical details of the experiment and this made it hard to follow, there were a lot of specifics that it referenced about the processes that made it difficult. It was interesting to read about an on hand account of what happened though, even if I did not understand all the details fully.
 *How was the genetic code solved experimentally?
+After deciding that DNA was responsible for the genetic code, not proteins, Nirenberg used a way of trial and error by experimenting with the base compostions of RNA codons by combining different polynucleotides with different proportions of nucleotides to see what amino acids resulted.
 *What is the relationship between the genetic code and a computer code?
 I think that the most fundamental like between the genetic code and a computer code is the way that they transmit information. So many proccesses in the body are driven by biological factors through physical or chemical signals, but genes are encoded in a very unique way. They are in the form of a code that other parts of the cell can regognize and respond to in a specific way. This is also the case for computer code; there is a set of guidelines that the computer always carries out when presented with a code that it recognizes.
 [[User:Vkuehn|Vkuehn]] ([[User talk:Vkuehn|talk]]) 23:43, 5 September 2013 (PDT)