The one aspect which is not a salient feature of genetic code, is its being

The one aspect which is not a salient feature of genetic code, is its being
  1. degenerate
  2. ambiguous
  3. universal
  4. specific

Solution

Genetic codes are never ambiguous. That is, it is never confusing. It is represented as triplet codons, each represents an amino acid. There are 64 codons. Out of which 61 codes for amino acids and 3 are stop codons.

Asked in: NEET 2010 (Screening)

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