Which of the following constitute about 10-20% of total circular RNA?
m-RNA
r -RNA
t-RNA
hn -RNA
Innitiation codon is :
AUG
UUU
UAG
AAG
A.
AUG
AUG is initiation codon which codes for methionine amino acid. Methionine is first amino acid of a polypeptide chain. UAA, UAG and UGA are known as termination codons.
Mutations which alter nucleotide sequence within a gene are :
frame shift mutations
base pair substitutions
both 'a' and 'b'
none of these
Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to proposed one gene-one enzyme hypothesis ?
E. coli
Nostoc
Drosophila
Neurospora
A point mutation comprising the substitution of a purine by pyrimidine is called
transition
translocation
deletion
transversion