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Expert answer:Consider a ribosome trying to read and translate i

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Solved by a verified expert:Consider a ribosome trying to read and translate into triplets a random sequence of RNA (not a coding region). Assume that A,U,G, and C are equally frequent in the RNA.What is the probability that the ribosome will run into a termination codon before being able to translate the next 15 “triplets” into the amino acid sequence?

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