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anyanavicka [17]
4 years ago
15

How many nucleotide bases make up a codon?

Biology
1 answer:
bazaltina [42]4 years ago
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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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