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How many triplet codes are there?


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Triplet code:

  1. Triplet code is a series of three nucleotides that determine a single amino acid.
  2. There are 64 triplet codons present in mRNA, i.e. 4 possible nucleotides in groups of 3 (43).
  3. Out of the total 64 codons, 61 code for 20 amino acids in proteins.
  4. UAA, UAG and UGA code for termination of translation are known as stop codons.

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