What is the biological meaning of the redundancy of the genetic code?

Since there are 61 codons for the 20 amino acids that make up proteins, some amino acids are encoded by more than one codon (so the code is degenerate). This redundancy increases the reliability of the code and the entire mechanism of protein biosynthesis.



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