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Molecular Basis of Inheritance — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Bihar BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYMolecular Basis of Inheritance1 Mark
MCQ
Two or more codons encoding the same amino acid is due to:
  • A
    Non-ambiguous
  • B
    Degeneracy of codon
  • C
    Non-overlapping of codon
  • D
    Non-sense codon
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Answer

  1. Degeneracy of codon

Explanation:

Genetic codons were introduced to overcome the difficulties and ambiguities in using DNA sequences. When more than one codon may specify the same amino acid, it is called as degeneracy of codon.

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