GATE BT · 2026 · BT
Question 42: Molecular Biology
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Question 42
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Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) translate to generate polypeptides and the translation terminates at the UGA, UAG or UAA stop codons. The AGA codon acts as additional stop codon in the mitochondria. The longest possible polypeptide(s) that can be hypothetically translated in the cytosol and/or mitochondria, from the given full length mRNA sequence (36 nucleotides) is/are
5′- AACACUAGACCAUGGCGAGACGUAGUUAAA- 3′
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GATE BT 2026 · Paper 1
Biotechnology · Original paper archive
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- Biotechnology
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