Homework Help: biology

Posted by Michelle on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 9:29pm.

Would two nucleotides be sufficient to provide enough codons to code for all 20 amino acids and why? how many amino acids could be coded for by codons containing only two nucleotides? Will three nucleotides per codon work and why or why not?

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