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DECK / 5'-GENETICS-3' 2026 / SCIENCE // THE MOLECULAR ARCHIVE GENETICS / The Four-Letter Alphabet From a monastery garden to programmable molecules — how four bases (A, T, G, C) became the operating system of life. Key sections include: GENETICS / The Four-Letter Alphabet; Mendel's Peas; The Double Helix; DNA → RNA → Protein; 64 codons → 20 amino acids; The Human Genome Project; "Junk" DNA, reconsidered; Mutations: the source code of variation; PCR: the photocopier of biology; Reading DNA: 100,000× cheaper.
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