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A strand of a piece of dna has the code sequence CGCGCCGCCCGGCCC. How many tRNAs are needed for translation and their tRNA anticodon sequences

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Since each tRNA uses 3 codons to attach an amino acid to the polypeptide and there is a total of 15 codons in this sequence, you would need 5 tRNA anticodons.

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