By experiments involving the breaking of $DNA$,it was discovered that the genetic code is a triplet. This was demonstrated by:

  • A
    Nirenberg and Matthaei
  • B
    Hershey and Chase
  • C
    Morgan and Sturtevant
  • D
    Beadle and Tatum

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Codons of glycine are

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched with regard to the codon and the amino acid coded by it?

$A$ sequence of how many nucleotides in messenger $RNA$ makes a codon for an amino acid?

Statement $I$: The codon $\text{UAA}$ codes for lysine.
Statement $II$: Genetic code is usually ambiguous.
In the light of the above statements,choose the correct answer from the options given below.

There are $64$ types of codons in the genetic code dictionary because:

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