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The evolutionary pressure is a root here, but the problem isn't readability, it's the lack of abstraction. The central dogma is DNA -> RNA -> protein, except t
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The evolutionary pressure is a root here, but the problem isn't readability, it's the lack of abstraction.
The central dogma is DNA -> RNA -> protein, except that:
1. RNA can fold into a functional molecule
2. RNA can be spliced differently to make several different proteins
3. RNA can bind with proteins to create other functional units
4. The availability of amino acids and TRNA units within the cell affects the speed at which a protein is translated from RNA, which can affect its structure, which affects its function
5. The codon language is not guaranteed identical between organisms, which means the same RNA sequence can encode for different amino acid sequences in different organisms
And that's just in the transcription/translation machinery. That's what I mean when I say there's no abstraction: biology is a physical system, which means molecular & atomic interactions influence every level of every process.