Essentials in the life process indicated by the self-referential genetic code

Romeu Cardoso Guimarães1

  • 1Laboratório de Biodiversidade e Evolução Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270.901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, romeucardosoguimaraes@gmail.com.

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