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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: C R Chim. 2010 Aug 7;14(4):372–387. doi: 10.1016/j.crci.2010.06.013

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Shuffling hydrogen bond donor and acceptor groups in the standard nucleobase pairs generated eight additional heterocycles that, according to simple theory, should form four new, mutually independent, base pairs. This is called an “artificially expanded genetic information system” (AEGIS). Could molecular behavior at the center of genetics and Darwinian Evolution be so simple? Synthesis was used to decide.