Answer to Question #268985 in Cell Biology for lliig

Question

How is the protein produced by the mutant mRNA strain below different from the wild type (normal) mRNA strand? You will need to use the table shown here to answer.

Wild Type  UA¦ACC¦AUG¦AAG¦ACU¦AUC¦AUU¦GCU¦UUG¦AGC¦UAC¦AUU¦C

Mutant    UA¦ACC¦AUG¦AAG¦ACC¦AUC¦AUU¦GCU¦UUG¦AGC¦UAC¦AUU¦C

Answer 1

The ribosome reads the mRNA sequence with the help of tRNA and rRNA, and the amino acid chain is generated based on the mRNA codon sequence.