Abstract. The paper presents the properties of the genetic code (built from two components, amino acid and nucleotide) in a new understanding, as the unity of chemism and semiosis. … With respect to the general biological principle „all or nothing“ („if anything, then everything“), codons „strive“ to reach a high and higher level of diversity in the act of chemical coding of amino acids, so much so that chemical coding in „vulnerable“ places turns into its opposite, begins to encode non-chemical entities as well. …