What is meant by the statement “The genetic code is universal”? What is the significance of this finding?

Q: How many codons would be possible in a triplet code if only three bases (A, C, and U) were used?

A: Codons are the sequences of DNA or RNA containing three nucleotides in a single set that codes for…

Q: What is meant by “Universality and Degeneracy” of the Genetic Code? What is the significance of the…

A: DNA have four bases, A, T, G and C, and proteins are made up of 20 different amino acids. Thereby…

Q: While studying the structure of a small gene that was recently sequenced during the Human Genome…

A: The rule in the case of DNA indicating that there is always equality in quantity between the bases A…

Q: What is a codon and on what kind of nucleic acid is it found?

A: A codon is a sequence of three DNA or RNA nucleotides that corresponds with a specific amino acid or…

Q: What does it mean when we say that the genetic code contains degeneracy? Discuss the universality of…

A: After the process of Transcription, when a small segment of DNA is transcribed into a strand of…

Q: What are the codons for the variations amino acid?

A: Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form proteins, which are the building blocks of…

Q: . What is the biological benefit of a degenerate genetic code?

A: Genetic code is the set of nucleotide bases, which are known to carry genetic information from the…

Q: What are the known exceptions to the genetic code?

A: Genetic code:  Genetic code is the term wherein each three nucleotides (out of four) in a row is…

Q: The nearly universal genetic code consists of how many codons?

A: Genes are the unit of heredity and they are made up of triplet genetic codons. These codons are…

Q: What is meant by the term DNA sequence?

A: Nucleic acids are the large biomolecules, essential to all known forms of life. They are composed of…

Q: It is possible for the codons for a single amino acid to have the first two bases in common and to…

A: mRNAs contain trinucleotide sequences known as codons. The ani-codon site of the tRNA recognizes the…

Q: Can exons be non coding?

A: The DNA is the information hub of the cell that contains instructions in the form of genes to…

Q: If there are 64 possible codons in the genetic code and the amino acid is specified by each, as read…

A: Protein synthesis is described as the process that ultimately results in the formation of proteins.…

Q: Which of the following DNA sequence pairs are completely complementary?

A: The above given statement is about DNA complementary sequence.

Q: Why did geneticists believe, even before direct experimental evidence was obtained, that the genetic…

A: Genetics is the study of how traits are passed from one generation to another. This includes but is…

Q: Define FOUR (4) types of point mutations within coding sequences

A: Coding sequences are the sequence of nucleotides in DNA capable to produce a protein. Many mutations…

Q: how is The Genetic Code Is Almost,but Not Quite, Universal?

A: The genetic code is the set of rules used to translate information encoded within the messenger…

Q: What is a codon? What does it represent?

A: The genetic framework is a set of instructions that living cells use to decode the information…

Q: What does it mean when we say that the genetic code is degenerate? Discuss the universality of the…

A: The genetic code is a system of triple letter codons that are made up of a combination of the…

Q: Assuming the genetic code is a triplet, what effect would the addition or loss of two nucleotides…

A: The process in which the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) molecule sequence is translated to form…

Q: What is the biological significance of the extensive degeneracy of the genetic code?

A: Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a nucleic acid found in both the nucleus and cytoplasm. It can be genetic…

Q: Define Universal code  as they apply to the genetic code

A: Genetic code is universal. If AUG specifies methionine in monkey it also specify the same amino acid…

Q: What are the key characteristics of the genetic code?

A: The genetic code is a series of rules that living cells use to convert information found in genetic…

Q: How important and useful to the cell is the ability of the DNA to assume various forms? Why are…

A: DNA is the basic hereditary molecule that is responsible for passing on genetic information from one…

Q: According to wobble rules, what codons should be recognized by the follow- ing anticodons? What…

A: Wobble pairing was defined as the base-pairing with two nucleotides that do not follow Watson-Crick…

Q: Why can the genetic code be qualified as a “degenerate code”?

A: The genetic code is referred as the nucleotide sequence of nitrogenous base, which specifies the…

Q: What is the histone code?

A: The histones are the basic proteins family that are attached to DNA inside the cell. These basic…

Q: What is the “second genetic code”?

A: The genetic code is the set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within…

Q: What codons are used and with what frequency?

A: mRNA is translated to form proteins. mRNAs contain trinucleotides sequences that are called codons.…

Q: What is the genetic code? Explain!

A: The sequence of nucleotides on DNA which determines the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide…

Q: Insulin is synthesized as preproinsulin, which has 81 amino acids. How many heterocyclic bases must…

A: Insulin is synthesized from preproinsulin. The preprotein is then cleaved by a proteolytic enzyme to…

Q: What is meant by the statement “The genetic code is universal”? What is the significance of this…

A: DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid that contains genetic information. Gene is a segment of DNA that can…

Q: specific base pairing essential to the processes of transcription and translation?

A: Transcription is the process by which an RNA copy of a gene sequence is created. This copy, known as…

Q: What is meant by the universality of the genetic code?

A: The genetic code is a collection of three-letter nucleotide combinations known as codons, each of…

Q: How many different 8-mer sequences of DNA are there?

A: Oligonucleotides are short DNA or RNA molecules. They are characterized by the sequence of…

Q: What is the Evidence that a codon is composed of more than one nucleotide?

A: A codon refers to a specific sequence of deoxy ribonucleotide (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA), which…

Q: What is the meaning of translation in molecular biology?

A: The literal meaning of translation is conversion of data from one language to another. This is the…

Q: What is meant by the term ‘redundancy’ in the context of the genetic code?

A: Genetic codon are the triplet of nitrogenous base pairs. These codon help code amino acids. We know…

Q: Four basic properties of the genetic code are specificity, degenerate, almost universal, and…

A: DNA is the genetic material in most animals. Some organisms, such as certain viruses, have RNA as…

Q: Define Nonuniversal codons as they apply to the genetic code

A: The rules that are followed by living cells to synthesize proteins from mRNA is called genetic code.…

Q: If the gene undergoing protein synthesis consists of 24 bases, how many codons does that result in?…

A: In genetic code a unit known as codon, which codes for amino acid. For example the sequence AUG is a…

Q: What is the concept of universality of the genetic code? What are the exceptions to this…

A: As we know that there are four nucleotide bases i.e. the A, T, G, C which are arranged in the form…

Q: Which amino acid is at the beginning of every eukaryotic protein and why?

A: The genetic information is transferred from DNA to RNA and from RNA to protein. This flow of genetic…

Q: What are the key properties of the genetic code? Given that the genomes of all organisms are made up…

A: Genetic code is the sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA which determines the sequence of amino…

Gene Interactions

When the expression of a single trait is influenced by two or more different non-allelic genes, it is termed as genetic interaction. According to Mendel's law of inheritance, each gene functions in its own way and does not depend on the function of another gene, i.e., a single gene controls each of seven characteristics considered, but the complex contribution of many different genes determine many traits of an organism.

Gene Expression

Gene expression is a process by which the instructions present in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are converted into useful molecules such as proteins, and functional messenger ribonucleic (mRNA) molecules in the case of non-protein-coding genes.