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AP Biology· difficulty 2/5

A protein is 100 amino acids long. The minimum mRNA coding length (ignoring start, stop, UTRs) is

A
$100 nucleotides$
B
$200 nucleotides$
C
$300 nucleotides$
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D
$33 nucleotides$

Explanation

3 nucleotides per codon \times 100 amino acids = 300 nucleotides.

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