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My favorite part from that article: So that the assembled genome would be recognizable as synthetic, four of the ordered DNA sequences contained strings of bas
by raimondious 16y ago
My favorite part from that article:
So that the assembled genome would be recognizable as synthetic, four of the ordered DNA sequences contained strings of bases that, in code, spell out an e-mail address, the names of many of the people involved in the project, and a few famous quotations.
- Evgeny 16y agoI guess sooner or later the random mutations may make these string "corrupted".
- Devilboy 16y agoI hope they included checkbits!
- zackattack 16y agoit may be a misconception but i think that checkbits are a feature of organic dna?
- biotech 16y agoYep! There is some error-checking built into dna-replication. The protein that does the replication is called DNA Polymerase. From its wikipedia article: Error correction is a property of some, but not all, DNA polymerases. This process corrects mistakes in newly-synthesized DNA. When an incorrect base pair is recognized, DNA polymerase reverses its direction by one base pair of DNA. The 3'-5' exonuclease activity of the enzyme allows the incorrect base pair to be excised (this activity is known as proofreading). Following base excision, the polymerase can re-insert the correct base and replication can continue.