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From: jtorres@abello.seci.uchile.cl (Juan C. Torres (F. Ciencias Laboratorio Bioquimica))
Subject: Why the Genetic Code?
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The biological answer to your question depends on how you beleive the system
evolved. Some think RNA came first, others that protewins and n. acids evolved
simultaneously. That makes possible different histories. You can make small
proteins without the gen. code, but they are small and thus there uis a limit
to complexity. The gen. code makes poissible the modern complexity of proteins.
Anyway, the only reason I can think for the gen. code is that it is an
extremely efficient way for the nucleic acids to have tajken control of
proteins. 
