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It is not easy to reassign codons as all downstream proteins would be affected (crick's frozen accident).
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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It's a shippin 'point fer cattle, but it hain't no more a town' n what the crick's a river.
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"The crick's up quite a bit!" said the handy-man as they set foot on the bridge.
The Just and the Unjust Vaughan Kester 1890
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Now, Mr.. Lathrop, you know me 'n' you 've known me a long time 'n' you 've heard me tell this a good many times 'n' yet I want to ask you one time more, -- _do_ you think any one but the blacksmith 'n' Mr. Dill would ever have blamed me for the crick's washing out back of the blacksmith's 'n' lettin 'the anvil' n 'the hind legs of Mr. Dill's horse slide out sudden?
Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs Anne Warner 1891
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"Well, that wants fixin 'some; and the bridge over the crick's putty bad, too, it will want putty nigh a new one.
Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832
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