LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In mRNA, each codon specifies a particular
A
nucleotide
B
amino acid
C
purine
D
pyrimidine
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Each codon instructs the cell to start the creation of a protein chain, to add a specific amino acid to the growing protein chain, or to stop creation of the protein chain. For instance, a messenger RNA codon, GCA, signals the addition of the amino acid alanine to the protein chain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The mRNA is then pulled through the ribosome; as its codons encounter the ribosome’s active site, the mRNA nucleotide sequence is translated into an amino acid sequence using the tRNAs as adaptors to add each amino acid in the correct sequence to the end of the growing polypeptide chain.

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