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What bases hold the directions on how to make proteins?

Well...generally speaking, all the bases make proteins. Well, more specifically, any number of bases divisible by 3 can make proteins. ;-) Every combination of 3 bases, UCAG, can encode a nucleotide (or a stop or a start). And there are seriously millions of different combinations of nucleotides that make up proteins of various lengths. And sometimes different proteins can be encoded by the SAME part of DNA, but on opposite strands! So I don't think you could really say that there are any specific bases that hold directions on how to make proteins...unless you're talking about Ribosomes...which are produced in the cytoplasm. Perhaps you could clarify your question?


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