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There's a lot of interesting things to consider.

One, is that base 4 makes a lot of sense for the stability of DNA structures. You have two purines, two pyrimadines.

Another is that partly because codons are degenerate, the distribution is way off a uniform distribution. For chemistry and mol bio reasons, the distribution of AGTC is very skewed.

When i fully wake up, this might be a fun blog post to draft.



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