Question

The redundancy of the genetic code relates to all of the following EXCEPT

the difference in the number of amino acids compared to the number of base pair combinations

the ability to produce multiple transcripts through alternate splicing

protection of important coding sequences against the effect of point mutations

the ability of tRNAs to base pair with multiple codons through wobble base pairing

Answer 1

The answer is ability to produce multiple transcript through alternate splicing

Geneic codon is said to be redundant because a single amino acid can be encoded by multiple codons. for example: glutamic acid is specified by GAG and GAA. Redundancy results because there are more codons than encodable amino acid. There are 64 possible permutations, or combinations, of three-letter nucleotide sequences that can be made from the four nucleotides. and there are only 20 amino acids.

redundancy is possible because of wobble base pairing.  wobble base pair is a pairing between two nucleotides in RNA molecules that does not follow Watson-Crick base pair rules. third position of codon is said to be wobble position. for example in AGG, third position is wobble, so that G encodes either a G or C.

Redundancy of the genetic code also make it more fault-tolerant for point mutations.

whereas alternate splicing is a deviation from normal splicing  where certain exons are skipped resulting in various forms of mature mRNA