Amino Acids and Codons

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• genetic code

  Because there are fewer amino acids than there are codons it tells you that there must be overlap with the codons, more than one codon sequence can encode for the same amino acid.

• DNA encodes proteins

  Divide the protein molecular weight by the average molecular weight of an amino acid to get the number of amino acids in the protein: 69000 Da / 120 Da = 575 amino acids Therefore, with 1.1x10E5 codons, and 575 amino acids, the total number of different

• Confused about the order of amino acids in the protein chain

  33388 Confused about the order of amino acids in the protein chain I have a list of of codons and the amino acids they code from, and I'm having problems listing the six amino acids in the protein chain above starting from the left of the tRNA chain

• Three nucleotide codon

  multiple bases and each amino acid.

• Effect of nucleotide substitution mutation on protein

  For example, the codons TTC and TTT both codes for one amino acid, phenyl alanine. Similarly serine is coded by 4 different codons : TCT, TCC, TCA and TCG.

• Genetics-From genes to protein, mutations.

  There can be different codons that code for the same amino acids. Did the two mutations result in a change in the final proteins? If so, describe the change.

• translate mRNA

  The order of the amino acids in the translated protein follows the order of the codons from left to right.

• How are amino acids combined to form a protein?

  33386 How are amino acids combined to form a protein? How are amino acids combined to form a protein? The file with answer is attached Q: How are amino acids combined to form a protein?

• Hypothesis for single start codon and triple stop codon

  There is a degeneracy in the genetic code whereby an amino acid may correspond to more than one codon. With 4 bases and three positions there are 64 possible codons, but there are only 20 amino acids.