24. Why can the genetic code
be qualified as a “degenerate
code”?

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The genetic code a degenerate code
there are amino codified
by more one type of . It is
not system in which element is
codified only one codifying .

For example, the amino acid arginine is
codified by sixcodons: CGU, CGC, CGA,
CGG, AGA and AGG.