Sorry for replying to a comment from so long ago, I just bumped into this.
This clarification is wrong, and a common mistake in science journalism: the genetic code is not the part of DNA that codes for proteins. The genetic code is the mapping between triplets of nucleotides (codons) and amino acids. The genetic code is very conserved among all life beings, though there is some variation (especially in mitochondria, where the selective pressure seems to be quite special)
Sorry for replying to a comment from so long ago, I just bumped into this.
This clarification is wrong, and a common mistake in science journalism: the genetic code is not the part of DNA that codes for proteins. The genetic code is the mapping between triplets of nucleotides (codons) and amino acids. The genetic code is very conserved among all life beings, though there is some variation (especially in mitochondria, where the selective pressure seems to be quite special)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
The correct word is genome, I agree