Gujarati
5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance
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What is meant by degenerate code

A

One amino acid is coded by one code

B

One amino acid can be coded by more than one code

C

One code controls one code

D

One code can control more than one amino acid

Solution

(b)As the number of codons is $64$ and number of amino acids to be coded is $21$, so more than one codons are available for a single amino acid.

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Biology

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