Which of the following characteristics is directly related to the coding of a single amino acid during the process of translation?

A) the base sequence of the tRNA

B) the amino acetyl tRNA synthase

C) the three-base sequence of mRNA

D) the complementarity of DNA and RNA

C) the three-base sequence of mRNA

Explanation:

Three-base sequence of mRNA is called codon. One codon specifies a single amino acid. There are 64 codons in eukaryotic cells and three of them are stop codons (non-coding).

tRNA have three-base sequence called anticodon which is complementary to specific codon. During the process of translation codon and anticodon are paired which leads to addition of amino acid to growing polypeptide chain. Newly added amino acid is carried by tRNA.