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There are sixty-four codons found in the human body. Amongst these, sixty-one represents amino acids. Stop codons are short nucleotide sequences that indicate the termination of amino acid synthesis. Like, UAA, UAG, and UGA are such stop codons. There are twenty amino acids in the human body, and those sixty-one codons are used for coding the amino acids specifically.
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