dr.gurinder
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A gene encodes a protein with 150 amino acids.There is one intron of 1000 bps, a 5'- utr of 100 bp and a 3'-utr of 200 bp.in the final processed mRNA, how many bases lie between the start AUG codon and the final termination codon?explain briefly how you arrived at your answer.
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| leen
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150*3 =450
m i right?
thanks
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| dr.gurinder
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leen you are right but could you please explain how u arrived at this answer?
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| Jinx
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the mrna will have only d coded amino acids--ie 150
so bases=150*3
introns etc are just distracters
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