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New life form discovered bottom of the ocean. This life formuses 8 new amino acids to build proteins, with also the 20 that arealready use. Also, size of their codons appears the same as ours.Which statements could be expected to be true for this lifeform?

Select one:

a. Protein structure will be less diverse

b. Genetic code will be more redundant so more of the codonscode for the same amino acids

c. Must have less nucleotides than we do

d. the genetic code will be less redundant so less codons codefor the same amino acid

e. No statements can be expected from this life form

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Option D The genetic code will be less redundant so fewer codons code for the same amino acid Currently there are 64 codons in which 61 codes for 20 amino acids and 3 codons serve as the stop    See Answer
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