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(a) How many codons code for amino acids...

(a) How many codons code for amino acids and how many are unable to do so ?
(b) Why are codes said to be (i) degenerate and (ii)unambigous ?

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61 codons code for amino acids and 3 are unable to do so.
See Q.29 (or) (b), Set III, outside Delhi 2008.
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