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Optimal Evolution of the Standard Genetic Code

Version 1 : Received: 28 April 2020 / Approved: 30 April 2020 / Online: 30 April 2020 (14:04:40 CEST)

How to cite: Yarus, M. Optimal Evolution of the Standard Genetic Code. Preprints 2020, 2020040533. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0533.v1 Yarus, M. Optimal Evolution of the Standard Genetic Code. Preprints 2020, 2020040533. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0533.v1

Abstract

The Standard Genetic Code (SGC) exists in every organism known on Earth. SGC evolution via early unique codon assignment, then later wobble, yields coding resembling the near-universal code. Below, later wobble also creates an optimal route to accurate codon assignment. This assignment time matches a previous mean time for ordered codes, exhibiting ≥ 90% of SGC order. Accurate evolution is also accessible, sufficiently frequent to appear in populations of 103 to 104 codes. SGC-like coding capacity, code order and assignments therefore arise together, in one attainable evolutionary intermediate. Examples, which plausibly resemble coding at evolutionary domain separation, are characterized.

Keywords

coding; codon; triplet; evolve; wobble

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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