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ROBERT J. SAWYER
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Robert J. Sawyer's Hugo Award-nominated novel Frameshift is about the Human Genome Project. This chart explaining the genetic code -- showing which nucleotide triplets specify which amino acids -- appears in the novel:

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| Alanine  | Arginine | Aspartic |Asparagine| Cysteine | Glutamic |Glutamine |
|          |          |   acid   |          |          |   acid   |          |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   GCA    |   AGA    |   GAC    |   AAC    |   TGC    |   GAA    |   CAA    |
|   GCC    |   AGG    |   GAT    |   AAT    |   TGT    |   GAG    |   CAG    |
|   GCG    |   CGA    |          |          |          |          |          |
|   GCT    |   CGC    |          |          |          |          |          |
|          |   CGG    |          |          |          |          |          |
|          |   CGT    |          |          |          |          |          |
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| Glycine  |Histidine |Isoleucine| Leucine  |  Lysine  |Methionine| Phenyl-  |
|          |          |          |          |          | (START)  | alanine  |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   GGA    |   CAC    |   ATA    |   CTA    |   AAA    |   ATG    |   TTC    |
|   GGC    |   CAT    |   ATC    |   CTC    |   AAG    |          |   TTT    |
|   GGG    |          |   ATT    |   CTG    |          |          |          |
|   GGT    |          |          |   CTT    |          |          |          |
|          |          |          |   TTA    |          |          |          |
|          |          |          |   TTG    |          |          |          |
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| Proline  |  Serine  |Thereonine|Tryptophan| Tyrosine |  Valine  |   STOP   |
|          |          |          |          |          |          |          |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   CCA    |   AGC    |   ACA    |   TGG    |   TAC    |   GTA    |   TAA    |
|   CCC    |   AGT    |   ACC    |          |   TAT    |   GTC    |   TAG    |
|   CCG    |   TCA    |   ACG    |          |          |   GTG    |   TGA    |
|   CCT    |   TCC    |   ACT    |          |          |   GTT    |          |
|          |   TCG    |          |          |          |          |          |
|          |   TCT    |          |          |          |          |          |
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