On a recent ID the Future podcast, Jonathan Wells listed six codes used by cells: the genetic code, the epigenetic code, the membrane code, the sugar code, the RNA splicing code, and the bioelectric code. Geoffrey North at Current Biology, on the other hand, contends that there is only one code, because all the others ultimately derive from DNA. Who's right?
As each eager new candidate comes along, it is invariably dubbed a new second genetic code -- never a third or fourth genetic code.......
Published on November 02, 2015 03:08