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Molecular Basis of Inheritance — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYMolecular Basis of Inheritance1 Mark
MCQ
The one aspect which is not a salient feature of genetic code is, its:
  • A
    Specificity
  • B
    Degeneracy
  • C
    Ambiguity
  • D
    Relativity
✓

Answer

  1. Ambiguity

Explanation:

Genetic codes are never ambiguous. That is, it is never confusing. It is represented as triplet codons, each represents an amino acid. There are 64 codons. Out of which 61 codes for amino acids and 3 are stop codons.

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