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What are the properties of genetic code?
Posted April 12, 2024
Cellular ProcessesCellular Structures and OrganellesDNA and RNA QuantitationGene Expression Analysis & GenotypingNucleic AcidsNucleusPhysiological Probes
Answer
The properties of genetic code include:
- Triplet code: sequence of 3 nucleotides
- It is non-ambiguous: a specific codon will only code for a particular amino acid
- It is universal: code is valid for all organisms
- Degenerate code: some codons can code for the same amino acid
- Non-overlapping code
- Commaless
- Have start and stop codons
- Polarity: each triplet is read from 5’ to 3’