Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134604718
Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino, Darrell Killian
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 1PDQ
HOW DO WE KNOW?
In this chapter, we focused on the translation of mRNA into proteins as well as on protein structure and function. Along the way, we found many opportunities to consider the methods and reasoning by which much of this information was acquired. From the explanations in the chapter, what answers would you propose to the following fundamental questions:
- (a) What experimentally derived information led to Holley’s proposal of the two-dimensional cloverleaf model of tRNA?
- (b) What experimental information verifies that certain codons in mRNA specify chain termination during translation?
- (c) How do we know, based on studies of Neurospora nutritional mutations, that one gene specifies one enzyme?
- (d) On what basis have we concluded that proteins are the end products of genetic expression?
- (e) How do we know that the structure of a protein is intimately related to the function of that protein?
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What experimentally derived information led to Holley’s proposal of the two-dimensional cloverleaf model of tRNA?
As we focused on the translation of mRNA into proteins as well as on protein structure and function. Along the way, we found many opportunities to consider the methods and reasoning by which much of this informationwas acquired. From the explanations given in the chapter,what answers would you propose to the following fundamentalquestion
What experimental information verifies that certain codonsin mRNA specify chain termination during translation?
The wobble rules for tRNA-mRNA pairing are shown. If we assume that the tRNAs do not containmodified bases, what is the minimum number of tRNAs needed to recognize the codons for the following types of amino acids?
A. Leucine
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