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There is only one possible sequence of amino acids when deduced from a given nucleotides. But multip

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There is only one possible sequence of amino acids when deduced from a given nucleotides. But multiple nucleotide sequence can be deduced from a single amino acid sequence. Explain this phenomenon.

Due to degeneracy of genetic code, some amino acids are coded by more than one codon. As a result, from an amino acid sequence, multiple nucleotide sequence will be obtained. For example, di peptide Met-Ile can be formed by AUG-AUU , AUG-AUC, AUG-AUA. Therefore any three nucleotide sequence would code for Met-Ile.