The Code of Nomenclature
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The means by which DNA and RNA carry genetic information, consisting of triplets of nucleotides which specify particular amino acids for protein synthesis; the complete sequence of such information relating to a particular organism. (OED 2011)
- 1886
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American Ornithologists’ Union (1886). The Code of Nomenclature and Check-List of North American Birds.
- 1944
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It is these chromosomes, or probably only an axial skeleton fibre of what we actually see under the microscope as the chromosome, that contain in some kind of code-script the entire pattern of the individual’s future development and of its functioning in the mature state. Every complete set of chromosomes contains the full code; so there are, as a rule, two copies of the latter in the fertilized egg cell, which forms the earliest stage of the future individual. In calling the structure of the chromosome fibres a code-script we mean that the all-penetrating mind, once conceived by Laplace, to which every causal connection lay immediately open, could tell from their structure whether the egg would develop, under suitable conditions, into a black cock or into a speckled hen, into a fly or a maize plant, a rhododendron, a beetle, a mouse or a woman.
Schrödinger, E. (1944). What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell: 21.
- 1953
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the precise sequence of the bases is the code which carries the genetical informationWatson, J.D. & Crick, F.H.C. (1953.2). Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid. Nature 171, 964-967: 965.
- 1961
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What is “The Code”? It is the set of criteria to be met in giving to an animal, or to a taxonomic group of animals, a scientific name, with its proper reference of author and date; and to regulate inter se names that have been given in the past
Stoll, N.R. (1961). Introduction. In: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature adopted by the XV International Congress of Zoology, vii-xvii: vii.