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A protein has a sequence of 100amino acids, how many nucleotides does the mRNA strand that...

A protein has a sequence of 100amino acids, how many nucleotides does the mRNA strand that encodes it have? (choose the best answer)
a.400
b.100
c.200
d.300
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Ans: d. 300

A protein has a sequence of 100 amino acids. We know that each codon can encode one amino acid and each codon has three nucleotides (example: AGU). Thus to have one amino acid three nucleotides are needed.

Therefore to make a protein sequence of 100 amino acids ( 100 x 3 )= 300 nucleotides are required.

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