FOOD CHEMISTRY
CARBOHYDRATES PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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Question
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Which of the following contains the genetic code for protein synthesis?
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carbohydrate
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lipid
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protein
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nucleic acid
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Proteins are encoded by genetic codes stored in DNA.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hereditary information is contained in the nucleotide sequence of DNA in a kind of code. The coded information is copied faithfully into RNA and translated into chains of amino acids.
Detailed explanation-3: -The two strands of DNA contain complementary information, so that one strand of DNA contains the information to specify the other strand. Normally, only one of the two DNA strands is copied to make RNA, in the process called transcription.
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