Purchase Solution

genetic code

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

A three-to-one correspondence of bases to amino acids codes for 64 amino acids. What does this information tell you, considering there are only 20 amino acids.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution fully explains what the genetic code is and how to clearly read it.

Solution Preview

Hello
I have attached a document that explains what the genetic code is and how you read the genetic code. This will allow you to answer this questions however you should be sure to rewrite the answer in your own words to make sure you truly understand it.

** Please see the attached file for a Word formatted copy of the solution response **

5) A three-to-one correspondence of bases to amino acids codes for 64 amino acids. What does this information tell you, considering there ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Basic Concepts in Neuroscience

This quiz provides a review of the basic concepts in neuroscience.

Comfort Measures For Labor

Are you ready to doula someone through labor?

Pregnancy Knowledge

How much do you know about being pregnant? Test your Pregnancy IQ with this quiz!

Infant Development: Sleep

How much do you know about infant sleep? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Cellular Respiration

This quiz is a review for cellular respiration.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Understanding the Universal Nature of the Genetic Code

    - There is redundancy in the genetic code. This is true, but it does not explain why the genetic code is universal. Redundancy just means that two sequences can code for the same thing.

  • Inherited Disorders

    Genetic testing has become more and more popular giving parents the option to have their genetic code analyzed before even having children in order to determine the probability of their children being born with a genetic defect.

  • What is the histone code?

    genetic code (Jenuwein and Allis 2001).

  • triplet code

    How can only four different nucleotides be used to construct a genetic code that will specify 20 different amino acids? These questions are presented. This is possible because the genetic code is triplet code.

  • Amino Acid Sequence in a Protein Molecule

    In case you don't have a genetic code table handy, see the attachment. For example, the amino acid Met has genetic code AUG, whereas the amino acid Lys has genetic code AAA or AAG.

  • Genetics and Personalized Medicine

    Watch the NOVA video: Cracking Your Genetic Code to learn more about the genetic technology available to us and what it means for medicine, ethics, and the future of human society.

  • Translation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

    The genetic code is not strictly universal. In certain eukaryotic nuclei and mitochondria and in at least one bacterium, codons that cause termination in the standard genetic code can code for amino acids tryptophan and glutamine.

  • Genetic Mutations

    A full explanation is provided for each scenario for genetic code mutations.

  • Standard Genetic Code

    295699 Standard Genetic Code Using the standard genetic code, interpret the following a) The following sequence was found to occur on a mRNA molecule: 5'-CCUUACACAGGAAACACGUAUGACCAUUGAGGCUUGAACAA-3' What amino acid sequence is represented here following

View More Related Solutions