Question

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here is the question


Why does life use a quanternary system ( A, T, G, C) to encode information instead of a binary
system ??

Answer 1

Acutally it's a tradition of the people to take quarter and to encode themself while in binary it becomes overload

Answer 2

As correctly stated by Alex Khomenko, a two nucleotide alphabet would require a much longer codon to encode an equal number of amino acids. But hold on a minute, if this is the only force at work then why stop at four nucleotides? Shouldn't a six nucleotide alphabet be able to create 62=3662=36 amino acid combinations, sufficient for all amino acids with stop codons and some degeneracy while also lowering the codon requirement from three to two and thus condensing the information by 50%? You've just stumbled onto part of one of the most interesting open questions in origin of life research, and one that probes the fundamental question of how the biopolymers we know today evolved in early life on Earth! Due to various competing constraints, four appears to be the optimal number of nucleotides.