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What Is an Advantage of Codon Degeneracy

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What is an advantage of codon degeneracy?


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Inducer Molecule

A substance that initiates the expression of genes by interacting with a repressor or an activator.

Active Repressor

A molecular form of a repressor protein that can bind to specific regions of DNA and inhibit gene transcription.

Transcriptional Activity

The process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase, crucial in gene expression.

Noncoding Region

Sections of DNA that do not code for proteins but may have regulatory roles in gene expression, chromatin structure, and genome organization.

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