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Selected nucleic acid consist of 50% of U and 50% G. Therefore, all the triplet codon possibilities containing only U and G will be present.

Possible amino acid codons:

1.UUU- Phenylalanine, 2. UUG- Leucine, 3.UGU- Cystine,

4.UGG- Trysine, 5.GUU and GUG- Valine,

6.GGU and GGG- Glycine

So each amino acid sequence will have equal probability to be present in codon.

This statement explains that there is 12.50% of probability of incorporation for each amino acid except for valine and glycine because there are two codon combinations for each of them hence probability of incorporation for them will be double than that of others i.e. 25%each.

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