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Degeneracy of the genetic code
The specification of one amino acid by more than one codon. It arises from the inevitable redundancy resulting from 64 triplets in a triplet code (4 x 4 x 4 = 64) encoding only 20 amino acids.
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- Category: Genetic engineering
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