dna coding for proteins
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- Created on: 18-10-15 18:25
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- DNA coding for proteins
- terms
- A gene is a length of DNA that codes for one or more polypeptides
- The genome of an organism is the entire DNA sequence. in humans this is 3 billion nucleotide base pairs
- a polypeptide is a polymer consisting of a chain of amino acids joined by peptide bonds
- a protien is a polymer made up of 100 or more amino acids
- triplet code
- prvides a codefor the construction of the polypeptide
- it is degenerate- amino acids have more than one code excluding methionine
- it is universal
- the chromosome
- each gene occupies a specific place/locus on the chromosome
- each chromosome consists of one molecule of DNA and each gene is just a part of the DNA molecule
- the DNA in the chromosomes is associated with histone proteins
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