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11 years ago
   What would be the minimum length (approxmiate number of bases) of an mRNA that coded for a protein 300 amino acids long?
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11 years ago
Such an mRNA would have to be at least 903 bases long. It would require a 3-base codon for each of the 300 amino acids, plus a stop codon.
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