Answer to Question #61112 in Genetics for Amit Sharma

Question

What is genetic code? Enlist the characteristics of a genetic code

Answer 1

Genetic code is a nucleotide base sequence of DNA (and subsequently on mRNA by transcription) which will be translated into a sequence of amino acids of the protein to be synthesized.
Characteristics of the genetic code are:
- triplet code;
- comma less;
- non-overlapping code;
- the coding dictionary;
- degenerate code;
- universality of code;
- non ambiguous code;
- chain ignition code;
- chain termination codons.