There are 64 combinations of three bases and I only need to describe 20, so there's combinations to spare.

三个一组的碱基产生六十四种组合,而我只需对应二十种氨基酸,所以一种氨基酸会对应不同密码子

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I got the idea from a book... by Dan Brown, "Da Vinci Code".

我是从一本书里得到了灵感，是丹·布朗的《达芬奇密码》。

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Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

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One of them has the right sequence of codons to specify the amino acid sequence of the protein, and the other one has a complimentary sequence.

该段带有正确的密码子序列,能够指导氨基酸序列合成蛋白质,另一段则是它的互补序列

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I took a cryptology class over the summer a few years ago and...

几年前的夏天，我去上了一门密码学的课程……

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That creates a problem in the genetic code in that there's 64 possible sequences but there's only 20 some amino acids, so each amino acid can be specified by more than one codon.

这里有个问题,遗传密码有六十四种可能的序列,而只有二十种氨基酸,因此每种氨基酸都有,不止一种密码子与之对应

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You know that messenger RNA is read in three base units called codons, and so this particular piece of messenger RNA is drawn in this cartoon in three base pair units.

RNA是按每三个碱基组成一个密码子,进行翻译的,在这幅动画中所画的mRNA,就是按三个碱基一组的方式来描绘的

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I want to be a cryptologist or a cryptographer.

我想做一名密码学家，破译密码。

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