Campbell Biology Custom Stony Brook 10 Th Edition
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ISBN: 9781269870818
Author: Reece Urry Cain Wasserman Minorsky Jackson
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 9TYU
Within a cell, the amount of protein made using a given mRNA molecule depends partly on
- (A) the degree of DNA methylation.
- (B) the rate at which the mRNA is degraded.
- (C) the number of introns present in the mRNA.
- (D) the typesof ribosomes present in the cytoplasm.
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Translation is the process of ____ and occurs in the ____.
a) mRNA assembly, nucleus
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d) transcript-building, nucleus
A section of the mRNA has a nucleotide sequence of CUATAUGUTGU. How many codons does this segment of mRNA represent?
a) two,
b) one,
c) four,
d) three,
e) none, this molecule is not a transcript of DNA
The RNA synthesized on one of the DNA strands is (a) mRNA, (b) tRNA, (c) rRNA, (d) all of these.
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