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Information Theory Genetics

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Unknown Whether the standard genetic code is globally optimal for error minimisation among all possible codon table assignments, and whether its optimality reflects historical contingency, selection pressure, or mathematical inevitability u-genetic-code-information-optimality

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Hypothesis The standard genetic code's codon degeneracy pattern constitutes a natural block error-correcting code selected to minimise phenotypic change per single-base substitution error, and this error-minimisation property is measurable and unique among the space of possible codon table assignments high

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