Chapter 2, Problem 26E

Summary Introduction

Introduction:

A codon is the nucleotide triplet that codes for an amino acid. A codon is a group of 3 nucleotides that codes for one amino acid. There are 64 combinations of nucleotides i.e. 64 codons, out of which 61 codes for amino acids and 3 are stop codons, and only 20 amino acids, the code is said to be degenerate or redundant. This means that there is more than one codon that code for a single amino acid.