What is degeneracy in the genetic code?

What is degeneracy in the genetic code?
  1. The ability of the code to read in a contiguous fashion
  2. The presence of punctuation in the code
  3. The ability of a single codon to code for more than one amino acid
  4. The universality of the code across different organisms

Solution

Some amino acids are coded by more than one codon, hence the code is

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