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The Genetic Code Table

abdul jabbar
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Which of the statements below regarding the genetic code table is NOT true?

(1) The table has 64 possible combination of triplets

(2) All of the 64 codons correspond to 20 different amino acids

(3) Every amino acid is encoded by one or more unique codon

(4) Some of the amino acids are encoded by multiple codons

(5) Organisms as distant as humans and bacteria share the same genetic code.

 

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im guessing the answer is (2) since 3 codons code for stop codons so thats only 61 that code for amino acids

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