08:08 pm - Humph.
I just realized GATTACA the movie is two letters too short, or one letter too many, to encode for amino acids.
This is perturbing.
You may wonder how I thought of it, and it doesn't really matter, other than to say I decided to look up what the letters from the motion picture encode for. Well, evidently, since what is actually the codon is the mRNA, so we have to look at it switched to what the mRNA would so as well as the RNA nucleotides. GATTACA would be: CUAAUGU. Ok, so CUA: is Leucine (Leusine?). and AUG is the stop codon. So Leusine and stop. With an extra U. Which, obviously doesn't make sense.
So then, from the other direction. An extra C, which doesn't make sense, and then ANOTHER stop codon, and Cysteine, which again doesn't make sense. How can you have a stop codon just before an amino acid? Nope, doesn't make sense.
I am perturbed, and disappointed in the GATTACA crew. You only had four letters, and you couldn't at least come up with something that correctly codes for at least part of a protein?
Psh.
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