Practice - Genetic Code
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Practice Questions
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What is a codon?
💡 Hint: Think about how messages are formed with letters.
What does the central dogma describe?
💡 Hint: Consider the process of how genes are expressed.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What do codons consist of?
💡 Hint: Remember how many letters make a word.
True or False: A mutation can never be beneficial.
💡 Hint: Think about how some changes can be good for survival.
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Challenge Problems
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A mutation introduces a stop codon prematurely in a coding sequence. Predict the consequences for the protein produced.
💡 Hint: Consider how incomplete proteins might affect cellular activity.
How would inserting three additional nucleotides into a DNA sequence affect the genetic code?
💡 Hint: Think about how the reading frame would be impacted.
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