9. How many amino acids could be specified if codons consisted of two nucleotides instead of three? What problem would this present for an organism making proteins using all 20 amino acids? (2 points)

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9.   How many amino acids could be specified if codons consisted of two nucleotides instead of three? What problem would this present for an organism making proteins using all 20 amino acids?  (2 points)

frostbite · Answer

How would you calculate how many amino acids that could be created?

frostbite · Answer

We say that a normal triplet have 64 options also equal to 4^3. What would you then guess if it only was two?

frostbite · Answer

The 2ed part of the question have a simply and more complicated solution, we can take that when you find out the first one.