Most amino acids are coded for by a set of similar codons
Chapter 17, Problem 17.35(choose chapter or problem)
Most amino acids are coded for by a set of similar codons (see Figure 17.5). What evolutionary explanations can you give for this pattern? (Hint: There is one explanation relating to ancestry, and some less obvious ones of a form-fits-function type.)
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