Biology

Brian Lam

23 May, 14:05

Why is it possible for an amino acid to be specified by more than one kind of codon?

a) Some codons have the same sequence of nucleotides.

b) There are 64 different kinds of codons but only 20 amino acids.

c) Some codons do not specify an amino acid.

d) The codon AUG codes for the amino acid methionine and serves as the start codon for protein synthesis.

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