The instructions are: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Due to there being 64 (4^3) possible codons, but only 20 different amino acids, the genetic code is degenerate: each amino acid is specified on average by about three different codons.

It’s 10 PM, and I’m at the university. What a life…