=='''[[user:Kgosch|Kurt Gosch]]'''==

#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".

[[User:Kgosch|Kgosch]] ([[User talk:Kgosch|talk]]) 15:45, 7 September 2013 (PDT)

=='''[[user:Ajvree|Alina Vreeland]]'''==

*''What is the biggest discovery that I made from these readings?''

:Before reading the Nirenberg article, I had not been familiar with the idea of cell-free synthesis. Being able to create and manipulate proteins without an actual living cell is quite amazing, and I'm impressed by new technologies in the field that I am constantly learning about.

*''What part of the reading did I understand the least?''

:I didn't understand a lot of the processes described in the Nirenberg reading. I continually had to look up certain compounds or terminology that was used in order to get a feel for what was going on. While the process of discovering how the genetic code worked was interesting, the article itself was tedious to get through.

*''How was the genetic code solved experimentally?''

:First, polynucleotides were synthesized and put into a series of random orders and proportions. After all of them were synthesized, they tested how each would react to one out of twenty tRNA samples, and whether binding would occur. Then the start and stop codon were discovered, which gave way to being able to decipher the genetic code.

*''What is the relationship between the genetic code and a computer code?''

:Genetic code and computer code are very similar in nature. Each have a certain number of inputs that can be paired or strung together in order to achieve a certain output or task. The genetic code has nucleotides that form triplets to code for an end product of proteins, while computer code uses binary, etc, to run a program.

[[User:Ajvree|Ajvree]] ([[User talk:Ajvree|talk]]) 23:01, 5 September 2013 (PDT)

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=='''[[user:mmalefyt|Miles Malefyt]]'''==

:*'''What is the biggest discovery that I made from these readings?'''

:The most interesting part of the readings came from the Hayes article where it was determined that only 114 out of a million codes were better than our genetic code already in place. This made me think that over the lifetime of genetic evolution, the code now used in our genes is

:*'''What part of the reading did I understand the least?'''

:The part that I understood the least came from the Moody paper where he compared the four different amino acids as essentially a binary code. I was under the impression that it was pretty important if a nucleotide was either an A or a G and that they couldn't be interchanged

:*'''How was the genetic code solved experimentally?'''

:A scientist named Nirenburg took all the mRNA and observed which amino acids they all translated into

:*'''What is the relationship between genetic code and computer code?'''

:The relationship between the genetic code and a computer code can be viewed as an input-output relationship. A certain code goes in and a specific result comes out. A single codon is like that of a line of code where individually it just makes an amino acid but together and in the right order they form a specific protein, or in coding, a program

=='''[[user:Lena|Lena Hunt]]'''==

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