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5 May, 05:36

Why does it make sense that codons consist of exactly three bases, and not one, two, or four?

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  1. 5 May, 05:54
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    In pairs of 3, they get encoded into an amino acid.

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    Codons are paired in threes because that's how they produce the amino acid sequence. Getting coded in 2 or 4 would result in a frameshift mutation.
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