Question

What determines which protein will be produced during translation?

A: length of DNA strand
B: Complexity of mRNA strand
C: number and arrangements of amino acids

Answer 1

The nucleotide sequence of a gene, through the medium of mRNA, is translated into the amino acid sequence of a protein by rules that are known as the genetic code. This code was deciphered in the early 1960s. The sequence of nucleotides in the mRNA molecule is read consecutively in groups of three.During translation, a cell uses the genetic information in messenger RNA (mRNA) to build a protein. The sequence of amino acids in the protein is determined by the sequence of nucleotides in the RNA. The matching of nucleotide triples to amino acids is called the genetic code.