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In this study, we introduce a remarkable squared tiling of the plan whose characteristics meet in many points those of the genetic code: same number of structural levels (3), same number of elements at each level (4, 64 and 20), same relationships between the elements of the different levels. To conclude, we formulate one hypothesis to explain these results and consequently we propose new ways of research in Artificial Life, but also in structural molecular biology.
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Tyran, JL. (1998). A Two Dimensional Virtual World to Explain the Genetic Code Structure?. In: Heudin, JC. (eds) Virtual Worlds. VW 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68686-X_18
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