Exercise – “Protein Synthesis”

1. List the parent strand of DNA you used in activity 12.2 and then list its complimentary mRNA strand.

2. List the sequence of codons you used in activity 12.3 and for each, list its corresponding amino acid.

3. What is the amino acid sequence for the mRNA strand given on page 12/5?

4. What effect does the indicated mutation of C to A have in this sequence?

5. What effect does the indicated mutation of A to U have in this sequence?

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