Exam 1 - Genetic Material

Question 1

what are the 5 features of the genetic code?

Answer 1

DUUNC

D - Degenerate
U - unambiguous
U - universal
N - non-overlapping
C - continuous

Question 2

continuous

Answer 2

triplet codons are uninterrupted, no breaks between codon’s order is colinear

Question 3

unambiguous

Answer 3

each codon specifies a single amino acid

Question 4

degenerate

Answer 4

amino acids can be associate with multiple codons

Question 5

non-overlapping

Answer 5

in mRNA each nucleotide is only part of one codon

overlapping = DNA

Question 6

universal

Answer 6

(almost) all life uses the same code