Nucleic Acids to Amino Acids--APEX
20 Amino Acids
Aspartic acid and Glutamine.
They are the amino acids. They are the monomers
Amino acids held together by peptide bonds.
No, they code for amino acids (in sequence).
UAA UGA UAG They are stop codons and do not code for any amino acids.
From a nucleic acid code to an amino acid code
Amino acids are made by reading the code in DNA. They are combined with other amino acids to form a protein.
Nucleic Acids to Amino Acids--APEX
It is the code for amino acids
20
There are 64 codons (3-base code) that represent 20 amino acids and 3 stop signals. Click on the related link to see a table of DNA codons and the amino acids for which they code.
20 Amino Acids
An mRNA transcript carries the genetic code to the ribosome. tRNA molecules bring amino acids to the ribosome for translation. The amino acids polymerize into functional proteins.
No. Amino acids are not always represented by only one codon. Several may code for one amino acid.
Aspartic acid and Glutamine.