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To answer this question, we have to be familiar with codons and the whole process of translation in cells.
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So if we look at our central dogma, we have dna being transformed into rna through transcription, and then rna being transformed into protein or expressed as protein through translation.
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Now, if we hone in on translation and focus and on that, we find that the way that this is actually going to occur is that mrna contains codons which are recognized by trna.
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And then amino acids polymerize into a polypeptide or also known as, protein.
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So in this way, we are able to go from m rna to protein through translation.
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Now, why is the genetic code degenerate? well, it's because we have these codons, which, just to review, these are going to be sets of three rna nucleotides, and these codons are going to be responsible for representing or coding for a particular amino acid.
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However, we have 64, codon combinations, whereas there are only 20 amino acids.
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So the codons are going to be degenerate...