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The one aspect which is not a salient feature of genetic code, is its being
BiologyMolecular Basis of InheritanceNEETNEET 2010 (Screening)
Options:
  • A degenerate
  • B ambiguous
  • C universal
  • D specific
Solution:
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The correct answer is: ambiguous
Genetic codes are never ambiguous. That is, it is never confusing. It is represented as triplet codons, each represents an amino acid. There are 64 codons. Out of which 61 codes for amino acids and 3 are stop codons.

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