Methylation of DNA strands can serve to distinguish parent (template) strands from newly synthesized strands in E. coli DNA

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The third base of each codon plays a lesser role in specifying an amino acid than the first two.

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All the amino acids except methionine and tryptophan have more than one codon.

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In most cases, codons that specify the same amino acid differ only at the third base.

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All the codons will be formed with equal frequency if the ratio of A:T:G:C is 1:1:1:1 concentration in the cell.

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The translation machinery is composed of four primary components: mRNAs, tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and the ribosome.

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There are two major steps to start translation

1. Activation of amino acids,

2. Assembly of ribosomes.