Three nucleotides makes up each codon. The codons consist of combination of 4 differing nucleotides A,G,T, and C.
3 bases are needed to specify an mRNA codon.
An mRNA codon is 3 bases long and can contain 4 different bases (A, U, C and G).Therefore there are 64 (4 X 4 X 4) different combinations.Many of these will code for the same amino acid. For example; UCA, UCU, UCC and UCG all code for the amino acid Serine.
If there are 12 nucleotides, the number of mRNA codons can be calculated by dividing the total number of nucleotides by 3, since each codon consists of 3 nucleotides. Therefore, with 12 nucleotides, there would be 12 / 3 = 4 codons.
No they are not. For a codon, there are 4^3 = 64 codon combinations, but only 20 [common] amino acids. The 4 represents the 4 nitrogenous bases, and the ^3 represents the arrangement into a codon (3 bp). An example of an amino acid that is specified by more than one amino acid is Alanine, which is specified by any of the following combinations: GUU, GUC, GUA, GUG. Because most amino acids have more than one codon, the genetic code is called "degenerate".
i think nine bases are needed for three amino acids because i think it takes three bases to make one amino acid
A three-nucleotide sequence makes up a codon.
A codon is made up of three nucleotides, or three letters (A, C, G, or T) in the genetic code. Each codon codes for a specific amino acid in a protein sequence.
A codon, or a 3-base code is required to code for one amino acid.
The codon and the anticodon interact with each other via hydrogen bonding, hence both the codon and anticodon are made up of the same number of nucleotides, which is three.
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There are 64 different codon combinations in the genetic code.
Every codon is three nucleotide pairs, so you would have 25 codons.
Since each amino acid is coded for by a specific triplet of nucleotides (codon), and there is a start codon and a stop codon, we need 15 nucleotides in the mRNA (3 nucleotides for each amino acid + 3 for start codon + 3 for stop codon).
3 nucleotides
A minimum of 600 nucleotides is necessary to code for a polypeptide that is 200 amino acids long because each amino acid is coded for by a sequence of three nucleotides in mRNA. This is due to the genetic code being triplet, where every three nucleotides represent one amino acid.
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3 bases are needed to specify an mRNA codon.