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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Great. Now see what codons they form, (among themselves or *with* the existing four bases), what they code *for*, and the relative affinitiees of different substrates one to another.

Oh, and how do they react to methylation?

4 posted on 02/27/2019 5:32:00 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I doubt that they would form any codons at all, since the tRNAs bind to specific codons. They could bind tRNAs, I suppose, if they had the same H bond patterns on their edges as natural DNA bases. But then, why would one need non-naturally occurring bases?

If you wanted to create a whole genetic system—the base pairs, tRNAs that recognize the triplets, enzymes to charge the tRNAs with novel amino acids—I suppose that is possible as an academic exercise. Not sure how useful it would be.


33 posted on 02/27/2019 7:26:29 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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