Question

1. you previously counted that your first protein was made of 19 amino acids. calculate the minimum number of nucleotides that must have made up the mrna to get a protein of that size. hint: remember that each codon codes for a single amino acid. also remember that each codon is made of three mrna nucleotides. rna nucleotides the answer to this question depends on your answers to previous questions.

Explanation:

Step1: Recall codon - amino acid relation

Each amino acid is coded by one codon, and each codon has 3 nucleotides.

Step2: Calculate nucleotides for 19 amino acids

If there are 19 amino acids, and each amino acid requires 3 nucleotides (per codon), then the number of nucleotides \(n = 19\times3\).
\(n=57\)

Answer:

57