Answer to Question #160799 in Organic Chemistry for sadra kawakji

Question

There are 64 codons and 20 amino acids. Explain how these codons are used in encoding of amino

acids

Answer 1

A codon is a sequence of three DNA or RNA nucleotides that corresponds with a specific amino acid or stop signal during protein synthesis. Of the 64 codons, 61 represent amino acids, and three are stop signals. ... For example, the codon CAG represents the amino acid glutamine, and TAA is a stop codon.