Molecular Basis of InheritanceHard

Question

Because most of the amino acids are represented by more than one codon, the genetic code is

Options

A.overlapping
B.Wobbling
C.degenerate
D.generate

Solution

Degeneracy means lack of specificity. Presence of more than one meaningful codons for an amino acid is called degeneracy eg, methionine and tryptophan has single code each. The maximum number of codons for amino acid is six eg, serine, arginie and leucine.

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