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Amino Acid?

sequence for the mRNA: AUG-UCA-AUG-UCA-AAA-GAC-CGA-AAA-GAC-CGA-UCA-AUG-AAA-UGA

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Answer:

Methionine - Serine - Methionine - Serine - Lysine - Aspartic acid - Arginine - Lysine - Aspartic acid - Lysine - Serine - Methionine - Lysine - STOP.

Step-by-step explanation:

The task in this question, which is to use the codons in the mRNA sequence to draft out an amino acid sequence depicts the process of TRANSLATION. Translation is the process by which an amino acid sequence is synthesized using the codons in the sequence of a mRNA molecule. The mRNA sequence is as follows:

sequence for the mRNA: AUG-UCA-AUG-UCA-AAA-GAC-CGA-AAA-GAC-CGA-UCA-AUG-AAA-UGA

Using the genetic code (a table showing the proteins encoded by certain codons), the following amino acid sequence is encoded by the mRNA sequence above:

Methionine - Serine - Methionine - Serine - Lysine - Aspartic acid - Arginine - Lysine - Aspartic acid - Lysine - Serine - Methionine - Lysine - STOP.

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