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Answer:

In pairs of 3, they get encoded into an amino acid.

Explanation:

Codons are paired in threes because that's how they produce the amino acid sequence. Getting coded in 2 or 4 would result in a frameshift mutation.

DNA is made from four specific nucleotides (A, C, T, and G), while proteins are made from 20 amino acids.

  1. Codons are nucleotide triplets that encode amino acids. Thus, so as for the four nucleotides to account for all 20 amino acids, at the very least three base pairs are required.
  2. A codon such as a single base may want to most effective code for four amino acids, a duration of bases for 16 (4x4), and of 3 bases for 64 (4x4x4). Given that tRNAs need to engage through their anticodons with the mRNA, we have a higher restriction for the codon duration.

What is a codon?

In DNA or RNA, a chain of three consecutive nucleotides codes for a selected amino acid or alerts the termination of gene translation (forestall or termination codon).

Thus it is clear that codons consist of exactly three bases, and not one, two, or four.

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