Chapter 13, Problem 8EQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

A. The effect of codon biason the protein synthesis of kangaroo mRNA(messenger deoxyribonucleic acid), using the cell-free system derived from yeast translation.

B. The advantages and disadvantages of codon bias in thetranslation process.

Introduction:

A codon is a sequence of three nucleotides that encodes a specific type of amino acid or stop signal during the synthesis of proteins. Multiple codons can code for a singleamino acid. There is a tendency of a particular organism to prefer the usage of a particular codon over the others for a specific amino acid. This phenomenon is referred to as codon bias.