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The auc and aua codons in mrna both specify isoleucine. what feature of the genetic code explains this?

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This provides us information about the degeneracy or the redundancy of the genetic code, where more than one sequence of 3 nucleotides on the MRNA can code for more than amino acid, based on its complementary anticodon.
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