{"id":201776,"date":"2024-12-17T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/origin-of-the-genetic-code-study"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:25:44","slug":"origin-of-the-genetic-code-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/origin-of-the-genetic-code-study","title":{"rendered":"Origin Of The Genetic Code \u2014 Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/origin-of-the-genetic-code-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eddie Gonzales Jr<\/strong><strong>. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/AncientPages.com\">AncientPages.com<\/a> \u2013 <\/strong>Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform \u2013 from bacteria to blue whales \u2013 shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/stock.adobe.com\/se\/search\/images?k=tree+of+life&search_type=usertyped&asset_id=563727093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Stock \u2013 Diatomic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking a fresh approach at an old problem, Sawsan Wehbi, a doctoral student in the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Arizona, discovered strong evidence that the textbook version of how the universal genetic code evolved needs revision. Wehbi is the first author of a study published in the journal PNAS suggesting the order with which amino acids \u2013 the code\u2019s building blocks \u2013 were recruited is at odds with what is widely considered the \u201cconsensus\u201d of genetic code evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Gonzales Jr. \u2013 AncientPages.com \u2013 Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform \u2013 from bacteria to blue whales \u2013 shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy. Image credit: Adobe Stock \u2013 Diatomic Taking a fresh approach at an old problem, Sawsan Wehbi, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}