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An mRNA codon is 3 bases long and can contain 4 different bases (A, U, C and G).

Therefore there are 64 (4 X 4 X 4) different combinations.

Many of these will code for the same amino acid. For example; UCA, UCU, UCC and UCG all code for the amino acid Serine.

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