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If you have a transfer RNA molecule with the anticodon AAG what is the amino acid being carried in during elongation?​

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Answer:

The correct answer would be - Phenylalanine

Step-by-step explanation:

The amino acid is formed during the process of translation that requires mRNA and tRNA sequences to make a three-base sequence code of amino acid which is complementary to the mRNA sequence triplet code.

mRNA sequences are complementary to the DNA sequence and tRNA sequences but tRNA sequences called anticodons and they have uracil instead of thymine which makes them different from DNA.

So, anticodon is - AAG

mRNA would be - UUC, (DNA would be - AAG)

then triplet code UUC is code for Phenylalanine amino acid.

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