Asked in ETEA MDCAT 2013 2013Moderate

What will be the anti-coden of AUG?

Correct answer: C. UAC

  • A. TAC
  • B. ATC
  • C. UAC
  • D. UTC

Explanation

AUG is the start codon that signals ribosomes to place in the amino acid methionine because the tRNA that has methionine attached to it has the anticodon sequence UAC. Therefore, the answer will be C.

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