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Chapter 17: Q. 17.117 (page 616)

Oxytocin is a peptide that contains nine amino acids. How many nucleotides would be found in the mRNA for this peptide?(17.5)

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3nucleotides would be found in the mRNA for this peptide.

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Step 1:Given information

We have to find out the how many nucleotides would be found in the mRNA for this peptide.

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Step 2:Explanation

We know that Oxytocin is a peptide that contains nine amino acids,

Each amino acid requires three nucleotides, as well as a start and stop codon with three nucleotides each. Three nucleotides are needed to code for each amino acid, plus the start and stop codons consisting of three nucleotides each, which makes a minimum total of 33nucleotides.

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Most popular questions from this chapter

What is the function of the enzyme DNA polymerase in DNA replication?

Suppose parent chain, adenine, is replaced by guanine. (17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6)

a. What type of mutation has occurred?

b. Using the new strand that results from this mutation, write the order of bases in the altered mRNA.

c.Write the three letter symbol for the amino acids that would go into peptide from the mRNA you wrote in the part b.

d.What effect,if any,might this mutation have on the structure and/or function of the resulting protein.

Why do viruses need to invade a host cell?

Write the base sequence in a complementary DNA segment if each original segment has the following base sequence:

a. A A A A A A

b. GGGGGG

c. AGTCCAGGT

d. CTGTATACGTTA

What is a codon?
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