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Ch.11 Nucleic Acids Big Molecules with a Big Role
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Oxytocin is a small peptide hormone involved in the process of birthing and lactation. It contains the nine amino acids shown.
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a. How many nucleotides would be found in the mRNA for this protein?

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Step 1: Understand the relationship between amino acids and codons. Each amino acid in a protein is encoded by a sequence of three nucleotides in the mRNA, known as a codon.
Step 2: Count the number of amino acids in the given peptide sequence. The sequence provided is 'CYIQNCPLG', which contains 9 amino acids.
Step 3: Multiply the number of amino acids by the number of nucleotides per codon. Since each amino acid corresponds to a codon of 3 nucleotides, multiply 9 (amino acids) by 3 (nucleotides per codon).
Step 4: Consider the start codon. In mRNA, the translation process begins with a start codon (AUG), which adds 3 additional nucleotides to the total count.
Step 5: Add the total nucleotides from the amino acids to the nucleotides from the start codon to determine the total number of nucleotides in the mRNA for this protein.

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Amino Acids and Codons

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and each amino acid is encoded by a sequence of three nucleotides known as a codon. In the case of oxytocin, which consists of nine amino acids, the corresponding mRNA will have a sequence of codons that directly translate to these amino acids.
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mRNA Synthesis

mRNA, or messenger RNA, is synthesized during the process of transcription, where a DNA template is used to create a complementary RNA strand. The length of the mRNA is determined by the number of codons needed to encode the entire protein, which is directly related to the number of amino acids in the protein.
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Nucleotide Count in mRNA

Since each codon consists of three nucleotides, the total number of nucleotides in the mRNA can be calculated by multiplying the number of amino acids by three. For oxytocin, with nine amino acids, the mRNA would contain 27 nucleotides, as each amino acid corresponds to one codon of three nucleotides.
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