The first amino acid of each protein is methionine, which is encoded by this codon.
What is ATG?
100
GCCCTCbGCAAACTAT
What is Albany?
100
This amino acids is the only one that contains two aromatic rings.
What is tryptophan (W)?
100
These two vowels are absent from the one letter code.
What are U and O?
100
Sickle cell anemia is caused by mutations of codon GAG to GTG, which alters these two amino acids.
What is glutamic acid (E) to valine (V)?
200
These three codons encode Stop signals.
What are TAA, TAG and TGA?
200
TTAuAATTGTCAT
What is Lunch?
200
This is the smallest amino acid.
What is glycine (G)?
200
This amino acid is abbreviated with a letter that is phonetically related to its first two letters.
What is phenylalanine (F)?
200
Expansion of CAG repeat sequences encoding this amino acid causes a genetic disease called Huntington's disease.
What is glutamine (Q)?
300
This amino acid is only encoded by one codon, but it not the start codon.
What is Tryptophan (W)?
300
CACATAGGCCAT
What is High?
300
This amino acid folds a ring structure that is folded back on itself.
What is proline (P)?
300
This number of letters is not annotated in the one-letter code.
What is six?
300
Cystic Fibrosis can be caused by deletion of a TTT codon in position 508 encoding which amino acid?
What is the amino acid phenylalanine?
400
This amino acid is encoded by three codons.
What is isoleucine (ATT, ATC, ATA)?
400
CCCoTGGGAACGC
What is Power?
400
These two amino acids have a ring structure and only differ in a hydroxylgroup (-OH).
What are phenylalanine (F) and tyrosine (Y)?
400
This letter was chosen to represent the two aromatic rings of this amino acid.
What is W (tryptophan)?
400
Beta thalassemia caused by a G to T point mutation alters this amino acid to a TAG stop codon.
What is glutamic acid (E)?
500
These three amino acids each are encoded by six codons each.
What are leucine (L), serine (S) and arginine (R)?
500
AGCTGTCATooTTG
What is School?
500
These two amino acids contain a sulfur atom.
What are methionine (M) and cysteine (C)?
500
These two amino acids are represented by two neighboring letters because of their properties, although none of those two letters are found in these amino acids.
What are glutamic acid and aspartic acid?
500
The disease phenylketonuria is caused by a point mutation in position 25 that alters a CGG to a TGG codon and alters these two amino acids?