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Practice problem

Base Pairing

By Elena Koslover

DNA nucleotides are used to encode the amino acids that make up proteins. If two nucleotides were translated into each amino acid, what is the maximum number of different amino acids that could be encoded? What is the minimal number of nucleotides needed to encode each amino acid if there 20 different ones that require encoding?

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