What is the name of the first amino acid you dragged into place using the Universal Genetic Code chart?

Question 3 options:

aspartic acid


valine


leucine


methionine


phenylalanine

Respuesta :

Ans. Phenylalanine.

Genetic codes or codons are triplet codes, made up of three nucleotides. Each genetic code codes for a particular amino acid during translation. There are total 64 codons, out of which 61 codes for amino acids, while 3 act as stop codons.  

According to Universal Genetic Code chart, first genetic code is UUU that codes for phenylalanine amino acid.

Thus, the correct answer is option). 'phenylalanine.'