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How many letters are in DNA code?


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Letters in DNA code:

  1. The DNA code is made up of four letters: A, C, G, and T.
  2. These letters are abbreviated as Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), and Thymine (T).
  3. The DNA code is made up of 64 three-letter "words" called codons and a basic alphabet consisting of only four “letters.”
  4. The nucleotide bases of DNA are made up of these four letters.
  5. There are 64 codons in the genetic code, each of which is three nucleotides long.

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