Question

The initiation codon for translation to start is AUG, it is the codon for

(a) methionine

(b) valine

(c) leucine

(d) isoleucine

Answer 1

Answer is : (a) methionine

The genetic code is triplet, the order of base pairs along DNA molecule controls the kind and order of amino acids found in the proteins of an organism. The start codon is the first codon of an mRNA transcript translated by ribosome. The most common start codon is AUG which codes for methionine.