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. What does degeneracy of the genetic code mean?
The genetic code is defined as the code which describes the true relation of the nucleotides with DNA and the coding which are coding for the 20 amino acids. More than one codon is usually code for single amino acids but 3 nucleotides together to form a codon and encode for an amino acid there total for 20 amino acids deserve 64 nucleotides. There by it is illustrated that a few amino acids coded by more than one codon. In case of degeneracy is defined as the redundancy but considerably there is no ambiguity for example in the coding of amino acid glutamic acid, codons needed GAA and GAG to encode for this amino acid. Here it is illustrated that there is neither of the codon which code for amino acid will not code for any other amino acid which represents that there is no ambiguity.