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Kaylee Velazquez
1 February, 21:47
How many nucleotide bases make up a codon?
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Alia Morgan
1 February, 23:34
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The nucleotide triplet that encodes an amino acid is called a codon. Each group of three 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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