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| transcription and translation |
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| produces mRNA strand complementary to one of the DNA strands |
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| ribsomes "read" nucleotide sequence in mRNA and synthesize a polypeptide with a specific sequence of amino acids |
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| every 3 nucleotides (read in 5' to 3' direction) |
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| How many codons are there in all? |
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| How many codons code for amino acids? |
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| hat are the 3 stop codons? |
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| Two examples of transgenic organisms |
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*Tobacco plant expressing a firefly gene
*pig expressing a jellyfish gene |
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| What is Beadle and Tatums hypothesis? |
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| one gene-one polypeptide= genes function by coding for several polypeptide subunits |
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