For a long time, plant lectin research concentrated on (i) the isolation and characterization of new carbohydrate binding proteins with interesting sugar binding and biological activities and (ii) the elucidation of the physiological role of different types of lectins from different species/taxa.
genetic code, the information carried by DNA that determines the specific amino acids and their sequence in each protein synthesized by an organism. The code consists of the sequence of nucleotides in the DNA molecule of each chromosome in the nucleus of every cell.
These are the genes. The best understood aspect of DNA coding is the encoding of amino acid information in genes that is used by the body to synthesize proteins. These are data blocks that represent protein structures. All proteins are substances made up of only 20 basic building blocks called amino acids.