Answer to Question #302511 in Organic Chemistry for Stray

Question

You are designing a new life form, 

and in order to ensure your creation doesn't mutate out of control,

you made a modification to normal life as we know it.

Instead of a triplet code for protein synthesis, you have adapted a quadruplet code.

It was quite exhausting to do, so you just let your intern come up with the codons.

Your intern decided to just go with adding an extra adenine to the end of each of the normal protein codons.

Too tired to argue, you decided to just go with it.

You need to get this organism to synthesize a polypeptide that is composed solely of 5 tryptophan in a chain.

From 5' to 3', what DNA template strand must exist in this organism in order for the above chain to be synthesized?

Answer 1

For the above chain to be synthesized!

messenger RNA (mRNA) strand must exist.

Answer is; messenger RNA strand.