Molecular Basis of Inheritance Question 57
57. Which of the following is not a property of the genetic code?
[NEET Kar. 2013]
(a) Universal
(b) Non-overlapping
(c) Ambiguous
(d) Degeneracy
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Answer : c
Hints & Solution
(c) Genetic code is the relationship of amino acid sequence in a polypeptide and nucleotide/ base sequence in $mRNA /$ antisense strand of DNA. It is universal, i.e., a codon specifies the same amino acid in all organisms, non-overlapping, i.e., adjacent codons are independent with no base being member of two codons, degeneracy, i.e., some amino acids are coded by more than one codon, hence the code is degenerate, unambiguous, i.e., one codon codes for only one amino acid.
