Acer executives promote the company's new BYOC strategy. Acer CEO Jason Chen is on far left. Acer Chairman Stan Shih is second to the left. Although the new cloud apps are free, the company wants to include extra features users can choose to pay for.
All proteins are made up of combinations of 20 different amino acids. The RNA code (like DNA) is written in just four different chemical 'letters' - bases. How can a code with four letters identify 20 different amino acids? By reading it three letters at a time - CAU, CAG, GGA, etc.
Proteins are molecules made up of sequences of amino acids bound by a peptide bond. The genetic code specifies twenty different amino acids that can compose proteins. Therefore there are numerous combinations of amino acids that can form polypeptide chains, and for this reason, protein molecules can be hugely diverse.