Discussion
The genetic code is described as degenerate because ________.
Answer: D
Correct answer: most amino acids are specified by more than one codon
Degeneracy means 61 sense codons encode only 20 amino acids, so most amino acids have several synonymous codons. Crucially the code is not ambiguous: a given codon always specifies the same amino acid.
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