BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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Author: Freeman
Publisher: PEARSON
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A minimal genetic code requires only 21 codons–one for each amino acid, and one for a stop signal. Given this, what advantage might be offered by having a code with 64 codons?

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