Imagine that a novel life-form is found deep within Earth's crust.Although its DNA is composed of the same four nucleotides as other life-forms, its codons are four bases in length.This organism could therefore be composed of _______ different amino acids.
A) 4
B) 16
C) 64
D) 128
E) 256

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With four bases in each codon and four different nucleotides available, the number of possible codons is 4^4, which equals 256. This means the organism could potentially have 256 different amino acids.

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