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Titin is a muscle protein whose gene has the largest known coding sequence: 80,781 DNA bases. How many amino acids long is titin?
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Since one codon is made up of three DNA bases, we divide the total number of DNA bases by three. This can be represented as: \[ \text{Number of Codons} = \frac{\text{Number of DNA bases}}{3} \] Show more…
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