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We may wait for another 4 billion years.

We don't know.

So we would be fooling ourselves if we said we know exactly how many amino acids existed early on.

But there's no reason to think that it wasn't the same.

Yeah.

We don't have a good reason.

But because roughly 20 out of 60 states are used, you're using one third of your possible states in your information system.

So this may seem like a waste, but informatically it's important because it's abundant and it is redundant, right?

So this code degeneracy, you see this in, that's implemented by this translation machinery inside the cell.

So it means you can make errors, right?

You can make errors, but the message will still get through.

You can speak missing some letters to the information can miss some parts, but the message will still get through.

So that's two thirds of the not used states gives you that robustness and resilience within the system.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, because the informatic capacity is made possible together with the other components.

And not only that, but also the product yields a functional, in this case, enzyme or protein, right?

So that's really amazing to me.

Actually, I have an image.

Maybe I can send you.

If you just do genetic codon charts, we can pull that up.