What is the purpose of the UAA codon?
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I want to know What is the purpose of the UAA codon. ( please, on a high school level)
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Answer:
It is an ending codon which signals the end of a code.
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When you're building a protein, you have a 'start' codon (AUG) that tells the building mechanism to read each following 3-nucleotide group in order and snag the appropriate Amino Acid to add to the string. This goes on until the 'stop' codon (UAA, UAG or UGA) is reached; then the process stops.
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