The region of molecule b that encodes a polypeptide is 24 nucleotides in length. consider another such molecule with a coding region of 300 nucleotides. what is a reasonable estimate for the length of the corresponding polypeptide that will be produced during protein synthesis?
Answer:
100 amino acids.
Each amino acid corresponds to a codon of 3 nucleotides. Therefore, a coding region of 300 nucleotides contains 100 codons and will produce a polypeptide of 100 amino acids in length.
