A1.2.10—Conservation of genetic code Topic Practice
A1.2.10—Conservation of genetic code Topic Practice
Practise recognising evidence that the genetic code is mostly conserved across species and applying this to gene transfer questions.
How this is tested
- explain why transferred human genes can produce the same proteins in yeast or bacteria
- interpret evidence that mRNA codons correspond to the same amino acids in different species
- distinguish universal coding evidence from base pairing, DNA replication or genome similarity distractors