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In this question, we're asked if there are five different types of bases in mrna instead of four, and four being atcg, what would be the minimum? oh, sorry, for mrna, actually, it would be aucg? apologies.
00:12
What would be the minimum codon size required to specify four different amino acids, 20 different amino acids and 30 different amino acids? so for the sake of e's, we'll say a, u, c, g, and b are the five different types of bases.
00:27
B is completely made up, but we're asked for five different types.
00:29
So there is a letter that comes after a in the alphabet.
00:33
Seemed like it would be fitting.
00:36
For four different amino acids, all we actually need is one nucleotide.
00:41
And we can even get some redundance because, you know, let's say we assign a different amino acid to each one of these letters.
00:47
And then b, we could assign to the same one as a.
00:50
And that way, just with one letter, you could represent four different amino acids.
00:56
So one is the answer to part a...