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Degeneracy of genetic codes is due to...

Degeneracy of genetic codes is due to

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functional 61 codons and 20 amino acids

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functional 64 codons and 20 amino acids

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functional 20 codons and 20 amino acids

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functional 20 codons and 61 amino acids

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