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Some amino acids are coded by more than one codon

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Unambiguous

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Degenerate

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Universal

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Initiator

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  2. The number of codons that code different amino acids is

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  3. Some amino acids are coded by more than one codon

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  4. What is correct gene expression pathway ?

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  5. What is not true for genetic code ?

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  9. Which one of the following statements regarding lac operon is correct?

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  10. Select the true statement

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  11. If one strand of DNA has the nitrogenous base sequence as ATCTG, what ...

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  12. Antibiotic inhibiting interaction between tRNA and mRNA during protein...

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  13. Out of 64 codons, the number of codons with GGGis

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  14. Removal of RNA polymerase III from nucleoplasm will affect the synthes...

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  15. DNA has equal number of adenine and thymine residuces (A=T) and equal ...

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  16. Given below is a sample of a portion of DNA strand giving the base seq...

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