Quote from: feedo on January 05, 2018, 01:39:59 AM

Quote from: CompNeuro on January 04, 2018, 11:28:05 PM

- DNA/RNA has 4 symbols ('atcg' or 'aucg'), is read three units (called bases) at a time, and there are 21 proteins (indicated by one letter abbreviations).
- The three drips on the chess piece could indicate a reading frame, which tells you how to chunk the bases. A different start point will lead to different amino acids, so this is important.
- DNA/RNA has stop codons, which indicate when to stop making a protein. These can either be delimiters between words, or be considered by their pigment based names (amber, ochre, opal).

seriously? don't tell me that coin-artist have a Phd in medicine or biochemistry Grin

your post could be a good lecture, but of course not here.

Actually I am on CompNeuro side here. The DNA double helix was my first thought when I saw the picture with inner&outer ring of flames for the first time. I then discarded the idea, not being able to pair flames as DNA bases pair each other in a double helix. But the idea with the reading frame is definitely something that is worth a deeper thought and definitely it was not mentioned before here.

And how whould you actually write such a post for non-biologists so they can understand it? I think the form it has been written is OK too.

Quote from: sini on January 05, 2018, 06:38:43 PM

Quote from: zbyszek2 on January 05, 2018, 05:11:18 PM

Quote from: sini on January 05, 2018, 04:20:55 PM

Might be of interest to some:

could you give some more info?

Outer ring with 'orange' flames. C for Colored. A for 'abnormal'.

thank you sini for posting that. It is of interest to some