8) which statement below is false? a)the backbone of a dna molecule is made of p

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8) which statement below is false? a)the backbone of a dna molecule is made of phosphatemolecules and deoxyribose sugars. b)dna is double strandard, while m-rna is singlestandard c)dna is confined to the nucleus, while the rna can move fromthe nucleus into the cytoplasm d) the genetic codon is made up of 4 bases 8) which statement below is false? a)the backbone of a dna molecule is made of phosphatemolecules and deoxyribose sugars. b)dna is double strandard, while m-rna is singlestandard c)dna is confined to the nucleus, while the rna can move fromthe nucleus into the cytoplasm d) the genetic codon is made up of 4 bases

Explanation / Answer

d)...the genetic codon is made up of 3 bases, not 4. a codon is a group of 3 bases that either a) acts to starttranslation, b) codes for an amino acid, or c) stops translation.there are 64 total codons and 61 of them code for amino acids.

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