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Yeah, it's a very standard table.

So I can explain why this is so amazing.

So you're looking at, like, this is life's alphabet, right?

And so I also want to make a very quick link now to your first question, the tree of life.

When we try to understand ancient languages or the cultures that use these extinct languages, we start with the modern languages.

So we look at Indo-European languages and try to understand certain words and make trees to understand.

This is what Slavic word is for snow, something like snig.

Exactly.

So we make trees to understand what is the original ancestor?

What did they use to say snow?

And if you have a lot of cultures who use the word snow, you can imagine that it was snowy.

That's why they needed that word.

It's the same thing for biology, right?

If we understand some function about that enzyme, we can understand the environment that they lived in.

It's similar in that sense.

So now you're looking at the alphabet of life.

In this case, it's not 20 or 25 letters.

You have four letters.

So what is really interesting that stands out to me when I look at this, on the outer shell, you're looking at the 20 amino acids that compose life, right?

The one, the methionine that you see, that's the start.