What is a DNA triplet? ?

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For a project that I have to do, I have to have at least 2 DNA triplets in my protein synthesis model. 

I'm just confussed, what's a triplet and can you give examples? 

Is it just something like: 
ATG 

So two would be 
ATG CTT 

OOORRRR 

Is it
ATG GCC TAC 

and then 2 will be 
ATG GCC TAC GAT CAT TGG



So you see how I'm confussed?

Ryan · Accepted Answer

A triplet is three nucleotides that make up one codon.  So two codons would consist of six nucleotides.

Two codons could be something like:  ACGTAT or any six nucleotides

? · Answer

Hmm, I'm thinking you are getting the different processes mixed up, so let's start from the beginning (or rather the end product, the protein).  To make proteins you need to link together amino acids.  Each amino acid has a three letter code that signifies which amino acid needs to be linked to the chain of amino acids.  The three letter code comes from the mRNA, which is created from the original DNA strand.  In science we traditionally do not talk about DNA triplets (though you could) because the amino acid sequence is derived from the RNA that has different chemistry than DNA.

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What is a DNA triplet? ?

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