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Agriculture · Q684

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 684

Q684

Termination codons are

A.
UAA, UAG, UAU
B.
UAA, UAG, UGA
Answer
C.
UAG, UGA, UUA
D.
UAC, UAG, UGA

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Termination codons are UAA, UAG, UGA.
A set of three adjacent bases in the DNA or their complementary bases in messenger RNA that specifies the end of a polypeptide chain.
The three chain-termination codons (in messenger RNA) are UAA, UAG and UGA. They are also called termination codons, stop codons or nonsense codons.