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How is the relationship of the genetic code and codon similar to alphabetic letters and words

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The genetic code has four "letters," just as the the alphabet has 26 letters. Three letters of the code form a "word," or codon, that specifies an amino acid. How is the relationship of the genetic code and a codon similar to alphabetic letters and words? DNA to RNA to proteins.

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