"The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern
cell's translation machinery consists of at least fifty
macromolecular components which are themselves encoded
in DNA [!]; the code cannot be translated otherwise
than by products of translation. It is the modern expression
of omne vivum ex ovo ['every living thing comes
from an egg']. When and how did this circle become
closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imagine."—*J,
Monod, Chance and Necessity (1971), p. 143.

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