BIO206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stop Codon, Start Codon, Horse Length

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Protein primarily carries out day to day metabolic activities of cells, conducted by proteins that are translated from mrna molecules. 20 l amino acids: but they didn"t know how the genetic code corresponded to each aa. The first component identified: the fact that genetic code involved readings triplets codes: so 64 diff possibilities to code for the 20 aa: this has imp implications. Comma free: no spacing b/w the nucleotide triplets in a reading frame, no overlap either. The fact that there was excess coding allowed for the code to be degenerate , Start codon: methionine: aug: this has a dual fxn: codes for eveyr methionine that"s in a polypeptide also has the added fxn to be the first codon that is translated in any protein. Stop codon: three of them: uag, uaa, uga: indicate stops for ribosomal translation. Degeneracy of the code: why not just simply have 20 codons to code for 20.

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