Below is the 5’–3’ strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule with the following nucleotide sequences:

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Chapter13: Gene Expression
Section13.4: Translation
Problem 3C: A certain mRNA strand has the following nucleotide sequence: 5AUGACGUAUAACUUU3 What is the anticodon...
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Below is the 5’–3’ strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule with the following nucleotide sequences:
5’ C C T A T G C A G T G G C C A T A T T C C A A A G C A T A G C 3’ 

1. If the RNA synthesized above (item #3) is a functional mRNA and all the nucleotides belong to an exon,
a. how many codons are present in this mRNA?
b. how many codons actually code for a protein in this mRNA?
c. what stop codon is present in this mRNA?

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