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Most Amino Acids Have More Than
One Codon
• Some codons are less subject to causing a mutation
in an amino acid sequence because of degeneracy or
because of the abundance of such tRNAs.
• There are 20 amino acids with 61 possible codons.
• Only Met and Trp have a single codon.
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