Biology A-Level
Degeneracy of the code
What Degeneracy of the code means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Degeneracy of the code
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Reference: OCR
Several codons can specify the same amino acid, so the amino acid sequence is often more reliably predicted than the exact base sequence is from the protein.
Topics that use Degeneracy of the code
- Manipulating genomes (OCR A-Level)
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