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If the sequence of an mRNA moving through the ribosome has the sequence 5'AUGCCAGCGGAUCGC3', what is the sequence of the polypeptide produced from translating this segment

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Answer:

MPADR (methionine-proline-alanine-aspartic acid-arginine)

Explanation:

Translation is the mechanism for which a protein is synthesized from the information encoded in the messenger RNA (mRNA). The mRNA is a single-stranded molecule that consists of a chain of nucleotides, where three-letter combinations of nucleotides 'or codons' specify the order of the corresponding amino acids in the polypeptide chain. The ribosome reads the mRNA by one codon at a time and thus translates this information into a polypeptide, where each codon is specific for one amino acid. In this code, the start codon is AUG (which is read as Methionine), while stop codons can be UAG, UAA, and UGA.

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