How does degeneracy of the genetic code bacteria to have different genomic base compositions yet to code for similar proteins?
With degeneracy (different codons that code for the same amino acid) of the genetic code it is possible to have different base sequences in a gene and yet code for the same sequence of amino acids. In coding for leucine, e.g., the RNA codons for leucine are CUU and CUA which correspond to 33.3% (G + C), while its other two RNA codons are CUC and CUG and these are 66.7% (G + C). If the first codon
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