Ambiguity and the evolution of the genetic code.
The evolution of the genetic code is an extremely complex problem. The addition of a new method by which the code could evolve, however, allows much to be explained about the way in which the present codes (gamma 3 and gamma 3) originated. The idea that ambiguity would allow the length of the codon to change is very useful, since it predicts the distribution of the 4-blocs and 2-blocs in the code, determines where variations in the code are probable, and presents a scenario for the evolution of the code.
D005075:Biological Evolution; D005815:Genetic Code; D008954:Models, Biological; D000069497:Origin of Life; D011336:Probability