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In portuguese nouns have gender- masculine or feminine. 

Most masculine verbs end with -o, -im, -om, and -um. Most feminine nouns end with -a, -ção, -dade or -gem.

Examples:

Masculine...

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We say that the genetic code is degenerate because there are several codons, which code for the same amino acid. For example UCA, UCU, UCG and UCC all code for Serine. 

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