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The sequence of "letters" in DNA is chemically arbitrary
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Jim Ley
on March 08, 2007
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sequence
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information
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bio-chemistry
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biology
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microbiology
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DNA: The Message in the Message
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Nancy R. Pearcey
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Pearcey
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The ordinary laws that explain the reaction of ordinary chemicals in bases, sugars, and phosphates comprising the nucleotides in DNA do not explain how the chemicals came to function as a cellular language.
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