Hereditary

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:19 am

Has this challenge relations with protein biosynthesis or it has another Biology connection with it that I could be missing? I've tried some translations used in Biology to decode messenger RNAs in this challenge (specially because the length of the string is 63, which is a multiple of 3), but all failed.

Thanks,
Bruno.

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:14 pm

Same here. In addition I calculated the complement of the RNA string, tried to decode and didn't succeed.
But from my point of view it has something to do with RNA triple coding/translation... it's not enough data for a frequency analysis.

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:01 pm

Yeah, I've tried also to give meaning to the decoded sequence, like you, but it isn't yielding useful stuff =/

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:37 pm

I got it. It envolves another basic Biology concept that I was missing. It's also related to protein synthesis.

trunx · Post by **trunx** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:51 am

I tought that i found a method to decode the ciphertext, but something is wrong ... The alphabet i discovered has only 15 Letters, no "E" included. The first two decoded letters are "TH". I would expect "E" for the next letter, but its not working.

is there a twist in this challange?

thx

trunx

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:30 pm

You are on the right line. It is to do with Biology and you are very close. Just keep trying and you'll get there very quickly.

jonik555 · Post by **jonik555** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:30 pm

Any hints? I know think I'm very close. I'm getting answer starting with TVCS.... I can't find any other biological sense than prothein synthesis.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:40 pm

Try protein synthesis then!

And remember there's more than one way to skin a cat.

jonik555 · Post by **jonik555** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:41 am

By more ways you mean reading frames? I really can't get it...

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:23 pm

By 'skinning a cat' I mean 'synthesise protein'

jonik555 · Post by **jonik555** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:46 pm

Thank you. Finally found it

. I didnt know that it can be represented the other way

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/shockwave.html helped a lot...

Nullsig · Post by **Nullsig** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:58 pm

So I figured out the code and my result was as expected... but for some reason my result is not working even though the rest of the sentence is perfect english

*** realized my error seconds after submitting this. fixed please disregard my error

trofi · Post by **trofi** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:40 pm

Nice hints guys!

I feel the need to share my one: the first letter is garbage, the rest are fine.

destiny · Post by **destiny** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:58 pm

Ahhh that took me longer than it should have...mainly because I didn't find the right table to use. There is also a reason why the first letter isn't needed, but you don't really need to look into it.