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ZoologyMolecular Basis of InheritancetRNA and TranslationEasy2 minPYQ_2020
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A gene encoding for a polypeptide of 60 amino acids get mutated at 30thcodon UAU becoming UAA The result would be

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In this example, 30th codon is mutated to form stop codon. Thus the first 29 codons will be read and 29 amino acids will form a polypeptide chain. But the stop codon will not allow further translation to occur and the remaining codons will not be translated

Stream:NTA_ABHYAS_NEETSubject:ZoologyTopic:Molecular Basis of InheritanceSubtopic:tRNA and Translation
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