Consider the set of 20 amino acids as a sample space and let X be the random variable mapping each amino acids to the number of codons for it. List all of the possible values of X and what is the probability distribution of X?
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The number of codons for each amino acid can range from 1 to 6. Therefore, the possible values of X are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Show more…
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