NEET 2002 Biology question

Out of 64 codons, 61 codons code for 20 types of amino acid it is called : -

(1)Degeneracy of genetic codeCorrect
(2)Overlapping of gene
(3)Wobbling of codon
(4)Universility of codons

Answer: (1)

Solution

There are 64 possible triplet codons, of which 61 code for the 20 amino acids and 3 are stop (nonsense) codons. Since there are more codons than amino acids, most amino acids are coded by more than one codon; this property is called degeneracy of the genetic

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