How many amino acids can a sequence of 24 DNA bases code for?

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Mandira P.
Jan 28, 2017

Each amino acid is represented by a genetic word called codon : which is three letter long and codons are written in commaless manner.

Thus, 24 bases would form 24/3 = 8 codons/words.

Hence a DNA with 24 bases would code for a protein with 8 amino acids. Angiotensin II is an example of octapeptide (protein with 8 amino acids).

I would like to add something, as an after thought: a sequence of 24 bases may have a nonsense/stop codon at the end. In that case only 7 amino acids coud be lined up.

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