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Explain the meaning of this statement: “the genetic code is punctuated, unambiguous, and redundant.”
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Explain the meaning of this statement: “the genetic code is punctuated, unambiguous, and redundant.”

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The meaning behind that statement basically tell that one amino acid can be coded by more than one triplet (redundancy).
But one codon triplet does not code for more than one amino acid, hence it is unambiguous.
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