Q. Who elaborated on the significance of codons?

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Q. The genetic code is degenerate.

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Q. How many codons do not code for amino acids?

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Q. The degeneracy of code was originally predicted by __________________

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Q. First artificially synthesized gene sequence was _________________

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Q. Which was the first artificially synthesized polypeptide?

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Q. UGA is a universal stop codon.

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Q. Which of the following is a stop codon in mitochondrial mRNA?

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Q. A change in nucleotide sequence that does not affect the amino acid sequence is called _____________ change.

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Q. Which types of changes participate in the process of natural selection?

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Q. Translation is the process of _____________________

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Q. Transfer RNAs decode the information present in __________________

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Q. Transfer RNA linked to an amino acid is called _____________

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Q. When was the first base sequence of a transfer RNA reported?

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Q. The length of tRNA molecules is ________________ nucleotides.

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Q. All mature tRNAs have the sequence CCA at their 3’ end.

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Q. The part of tRNA that interacts with the codon of mRNA is termed as __________

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Q. The “wobble hypothesis” was proposed by ______________________

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Q. The enzyme aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase is responsible for linking ____________________________

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Q. The synthesis of polypeptide can be divided into ______ distinct activities.

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