Question

What is the minumum number of tRNA molecules that a cell must contain in order to translate all 61 sense codons?

Match the words in the left column to the appropriate blanks in the sentences on the right.

three tRNAs with variations each in the positions would thirty two tRNAs suffice to translate sixteen amino acids. Because of wobble in the position, only variations suffice to translate all twenty amino acids. Therefore, sixty one tRNAS should be the minimum needed to translate sixty one sense codons. first and second sixteen tRNAs third four two first and third sixteen second

Answer 1

1. 32 tRNA is the minimum number of required to translate all 61 sense codons.

Blank number

1. Sixteen

2. Four

3. First and second

4. Third

5. Sixteen

6. Thirty two t RNAs