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If a polypeptide is composed of 319 amino acids, how many nucleotides were in the mRNA...

If a polypeptide is composed of 319 amino acids, how many nucleotides were in the mRNA transcript for the polypeptide? Show your work (math).

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Total number of nucleotides in mRNA transcript will be 960. The work is shown in Handwritten solution. Please find the attached file:


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