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Course Home https/Asession.masteringchemistry.com/myct/temView?offset nexta assignment ProblemID 69156333 BioChem Fall 2016 laoslanon and Rostranslatonalpr Protein Synthesis (1 of 3) overview(BioFlo tutorial) You completed assignment. 4of6 next Part C Codon sue and the geneticcode ue as we know depends on e genetic code a set ofendons, each made up of rree bases in a DNA e and comesponding mRNA sequence that specifies Imagine eat a pokaryoteae organism has been discovered in the polarice on Man Interestingly, these Martian organisms use the same DNA there are only 2 bases A and T) the Manan DNA and there are only 17 amino acids found in Matin proteins Based on this informason, what is the minimum size of a codon for these hypothetical Martian life forms? The answer cannot be determined from the information Provided in the most general case of bases and bases per codon the total numb of possible codons is equal to nr

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We need to be able to make 17 unique codons at least .

We can calculate the number of possible unique codons by raising the number of bases (2) to the (codon length) 2^2=4, 2^3=8, 2^4=16, 2^5=32.

So codons will need to be at least five bases long to have enough potential combinations to code for 17 amino acids.

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