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How would the structure of nucleotides in a dna molecule affect the structure of amino acids in a protein

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DNA determines which amino acids make a protein by the combination of three nucleotides. Each set of three nucleotides is called a codon and each codon corresponds to a particular amino acid, although an amino acid can be coded by multiple codons because there are only 22 aminoacids.

This is known as the genetic code:

How would the structure of nucleotides in a dna molecule affect the structure of amino-example-1
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