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Setler [38]
4 years ago
5

How many codons are needed for 3 amino acids?

Biology
1 answer:
liubo4ka [24]4 years ago
8 0
The nucleotide triplet that encodes an amino acid<span> is called a </span>codon. Each group ofthree<span> nucleotides encodes one </span>amino acid<span>. Since there are 64 combinations of 4 nucleotides taken </span>three<span> at a time and only 20 </span>amino acids<span>, the code is degenerate (more than one </span>codon<span> per </span>amino acid<span>, in most cases).</span>
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