Unit 4 - Genetic information, variation and relationships between organisms
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Summary Ch 8 DNA, genes and protein synthesis notes A* AQA A Level Biology
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8.1 Genes and the
genetic code
,What is a gene?
• Gene = section of DNA that contains the coded information for
making polypeptides or functional RNA
• Gene locus = location of the gene on a chromosome
DNA triplets Amino acids Polypeptide
, Why triplets?
• There are 20 amino acids
• There need to be enough different combinations of bases to code f
20 amino acids
• It couldn’t be one base coding for one amino acid because this wou
only make 4 combinations
• It couldn’t be 2 bases per amino acid because this would make only
16 combinations
• It had to be 3 – this made 64 combinations
• Therefore, most amino acids have multiple triplets that can code fo
them
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