A protein is 300 amino acids long. Which of the following could be the number of DNA base pairs in the section of DNA that codes for this protein?  Group of answer choices 100   900   1200   None of these   300

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A protein is 300 amino acids long. Which of the following could be the number of DNA base pairs in the section of DNA that codes for this protein? 

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100
 
900
 
1200
 
None of these
 
300
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