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Q. The mRNA consisting of 282 nucleotides can produce a polypeptide chain of

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Solution:

Each codon is a triplet in nature therefore in the given chain of mRNA there must be total of 94 codons (282/3 = 94). But if we consider the last codon as a stop codon, then polypeptide synthesized by the given mRNA has 93 amino acids.