What is an advantage of a degenerate genetic code?

Mutations are more likely to alter proteins, increasing the rate of evolution.

Mutations are less likely to alter protein sequence, decreasing the chances that a mutation will have deleterious consequences to the organism.

It increases the number of different proteins that can be coded by each gene.

It decreases the total number of tRNAs that have to be made.

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Regina Moran

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8 October, 12:47

What is an advantage of a degenerate genetic code?

Mutations are more likely to alter proteins, increasing the rate of evolution.

Mutations are less likely to alter protein sequence, decreasing the chances that a mutation will have deleterious consequences to the organism.

It increases the number of different proteins that can be coded by each gene.

It decreases the total number of tRNAs that have to be made.

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This is because there are no base triplets that are unused in the cell. All of the bases are used since more than one triplet of DNA bases are coded for amino acids