If You Carried Out the Nirenberg and Ochoa Experiments (Mixing

question 67

Essay

If you carried out the Nirenberg and Ochoa experiments (mixing different nucleotide proportions with polynucleotide phosphorylase and using this RNA to synthesize peptides) using a 2:1 mixture of GTP and CTP, what would you expect to find in terms of (a) amino acids incorporated and (b) their relative abundance?

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