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What does the degeneracy of genetic code refer to?

  1. One codon has many meanings.

  2. Many codons have the same meaning.

  3. Only two codons share many amino acids.

  4. Third base is not stable.

  5. During translation the genetic code is read one after the other in a sequence.
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Explanation

A code in which several code words have the same meaning is called as degeneracy of genetic code.

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