I can't help noticing that the Google Doodle of Har Gobind Khorana had letters on the genes this morning (and in search top results for his name), but they're currently blank.
Now I'm desperately curious where the error was. XD
Ah, this may explain it: https://scidols.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/this-google-doodle-could-use-a-quick-google/
The author seems to be correct, but he also seems to be kind of a pedantic alarmist jerkass, you've been warned. -_-
@zebratron2084 Ooh, yeah, once I saw what the letters were, I understood immediately what was wrong and also saw an angle that the pedantic jerkass didn't: design.
In order to get folks to read it as nucleic acid visually, they pretty much had to do the two strands. Just having one line with some bits hanging off it wouldn't have read well, letters or not.
What _I_ want to know is why didn't they even TRY to spell "Google" with the amino acids? :)
@indi That's an excellent point, and I kind of want to write it in a nice leather-bound journal with a pretty metallic-gel calligraphy pen and then close the goddamn book on his nose while he's reading it. -_-