Self And The Phenomenon Of Life: A Biologist Examines Life From Molecules To Humanity

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Fig. 3.4. Detail of the translation machinery. The machine converts nucleic acid lan-
guage into protein language according to the genetic code. (A) Schematic drawing show-
ing how the enzyme aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS) matches the amino acid (AA)