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8 April, 12:10

How many nucleotides are required/needed to synthesize a protein that has 23 amino acids in it?

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  1. 8 April, 12:36
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    The nucleotide triplet that encodes an amino acid is called a codon. Each group of three nucleotides encodes one amino acid. Since there are 64 combinations of 4 nucleotides taken three at a time and only 20 amino acids, the code is degenerate (more than one codon per amino acid, in most cases).
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