Modified MasteringMicrobiology with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Microbiology with Diseases by Body System
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ISBN: 9780134608785
Author: Robert W. Ph.D. Bauman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 1CT
If molecules of mRNA have the following
- a. AUGGGGAUACGCUACCCC
- b. CCGUACAUGCUAAUCCCU
- c. CCGAUGUMCCUCGAUCC
- d. AUGCGGUCAGCCCCGUGA
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A single template strand of a DNA molecule is represented by
3’atgtaccatgcgcaaatttaaaggccc5’.
a) Imagine that AAG is an INTRON in the original DNA template strand above. Write the mature mRNA strand after the three modifications?
b) Write the amino acid sequence of your mature mRNA.
c) List the molecules involved in translation and briefly describe their function.
3’ G G A U A C G U C A C C G G U A U A A G G U U U C G U A U C G 5’
If the RNA synthesized above is a functional mRNA and all the nucleotides belong to an exon,
a. how many codons are present in this mRNA?
b. how many codons actually code for a protein in this mRNA?
c. what stop codon is present in this mRNA?
Considering the given sequence of nucleotides in an mRNA molecule, (a) what is the sequence of the DNA template strand from which the RNA was synthesized? (b) What peptide is synthesized by this mRNA sequence? 5' GAG CCC GUA UAC GCC ACG 3'
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