How are amino acids spread out?

Question

Is it one amino acids per nucleotide?

Answer 1

There are no amino acids in nucleotides. A nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and a phosphate group and is what makes up DNA and RNA. An amino acid has a central carbon with a hydrogen, an amine group, a carboxyl group, and an R-group which gives the amino acids its name. Amino acids make up proteins.  

Answer 2

As for sci219's answer:  I think he means the redundancy of the genetic code, not the degeneracy.

Answer 3

I do not quite understand your question. Three nucleotides on the DNA code for one amino acid.

Answer 4

Amino acids are read on a triplet of nucleotides (3), which is called a codon. If you look up a codon table, you will see that 3 nucleotides will result in one amino acid. For example, methionine has the codon: AUG.

One important note to know is the degeneracy of the amino acid code (codon table), which means that more than one codons can could for a single amino acid. This is important because if any nucleotide mutation(s) occur in a codon, then you have a good probability that the amino won't change.

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