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Zarrin [17]
3 years ago
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What chemical does mercury fool your body’s cells into thinking it truly is?

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mylen [45]3 years ago
4 0

Estrogen, the metal Mercury tricks your body into thinking it is the chemical Estrogen

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The genetic code

During translation, a cell “reads” the information in a messenger RNA (mRNA) and uses it to build a protein. Actually, to be a little more techical, an mRNA doesn’t always encode—provide instructions for—a whole protein. Instead, what we can confidently say is that it always encodes a polypeptide, or chain of amino acids.

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In an mRNA, the instructions for building a polypeptide are RNA nucleotides (As, Us, Cs, and Gs) read in groups of three. These groups of three are called codons.

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AUG - Methionine

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