We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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This last discovery illuminated the mechanism of protein synthesis the protein chain is transferred in turn from one amino-acid-bearing transfer RNA to another as it grows, their order dictated by messenger RNA and ultimately by the genetic code on the DNWalter Gilbert
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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