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Elisha Huang
22 October, 16:13
How many codons are needed for 3 amino acids?
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Janelle Rojas
22 October, 19:03
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The nucleotide triplet that encodes an amino acid is called a codon. Each group ofthree nucleotides encodes one amino acid. Since there are 64 combinations of 4 nucleotides taken three at a time and only 20 amino acids, the code is degenerate (more than one codon per amino acid, in most cases).
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