Figure 22

Nucleotide ratios in codons. The number of the 4 different nucleotide bases was counted at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd codon positions in 30 different protein coding RNA sequences. The ratios of the Watson-Crick pairs at different codon positions are indicated by bars (± SEM, n = 30). Ideally, the ratio of complementary base pairs is ~1.0. This ideal situation was mostly satisfied when one of the complementary bases was located at codon position 1 with the other at codon position 3 (pink) or both complements at codon position 2 (violet).