Genetics Unzipped – Poop, pus and the Manhattan Project: how we learned to spell the genetic alphabet
Posted by katarney on February 27th, 2020
The genetic code is written in just four ‘letters – A, C, T and G, short for adenine, cytosine, thymine and guanine. But where did they come from? To find out, we need to go back to the Bird Poop Boom of the 1840s.