Chapter Fourteen, Immortality
This chapter examines the so-called "immortality" of the genetic code - i.e. how is it that genetic code can remain precise has it has been for 50 billion copyings since the dawn of life? Part of the answer is in the protein enzyme telomerase, lying on chromosome 14 and coded by the gene TEP1.
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