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(b)
Show
two
bonds
between
thymine
and
adenine
and
three
bonds
between
cytosine
and
guanine
in
the
correct
positions.
and
2.
(a)
The
triplet
code
is
the
sequence
of
the
nitrogen-‐containing
bases
on
the
nucleotides
carried
by
messenger
RNA
to
synthesise
particular
amino
acids
to
form
protein
chains.
UAU
and
UAC
mean
that
the
sequence
of
bases
are
uracil-‐adenine-‐uracil
and
uracil-‐
adenine-‐cytosine
respectively.
The
four
different
bases
can
make
up
64
different
combinations
(permutations)
known
as
codons
and
there
are
only
about
20
amino
acids
needed
so
some
of
the
amino
acids
have
more
than
one
codon.
In
this
case
tyrosine
has
two.
(b)
The
DNA
sequence
ACA,
AAA,
CTT,
GTG
and
ACT
will
transcribe
to
the
RNA
codons
UGU,
UUU,
GAA,
CAC
and
UGA
so
that
the
sequence
of
amino
acids
will
be
-‐Cys-‐Phe-‐Glu-‐His
followed
by
a
terminator
which
means
that
the
chain
of
the
polypeptide
will
end
with
these
four
amino
acid
residues.
Dr Geoffrey Neuss, InThinking
©
http://www.thinkib.net/chemistry 1
Dr Geoffrey Neuss, InThinking
©
http://www.thinkib.net/chemistry 2