July 2nd Loop16 command update

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Hello Everyone. I was just able to check in from a long weekend and noticed this image and that the puzzle seems to be about genetics (something I actually have a degree in).

I am not sure what has been solved about it so far, but the first thing that comes to me when looking at this picture is that a series of 3 nucleic acid make a codon. A codon encodes for a specific amino acid. Perhaps, there is a clue/ answer with the amino acids names for these codons?

Edit addition: Translating the structure to the 4 nucleic acids: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thyamine (A,G,C and T) and then translating the codons to amino acids you get:
ATT = Isoleucine
GAT = Aspartic acid
GAA = Glutamic acid
AAT = Asparagine
ACG = Threonine
ATC = Isoleucine
ACC = Threonine
TAT = Tyrosine

Obviously, there are some codons that give you the same amino acid.

I hope this is helpful.

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Then take the single letter symbol for those amino acids Aspartic acid => D, Glutamic acid => E, etc. and I think you have the answer. (Some one else figured this out, it has been way too long since I studied biochemistry.)

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You convert the nucleotide sequence to a protein sequence - this site has a tool ExPASy - Translate tool