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DNA transcriber. mRNA bases loaded at 270 bases. Bases supplied 270 bases, Bases required 126 bases. Currently bases supplied is over by 144 bases.TUNINGreading runs off the end
t = 0.0s

Bases supplied

270bases

Bases required

126bases

Bases supplied is over by 144 bases

270 bases

DNA transcriber. mRNA bases loaded at 270 bases. Bases supplied 270 bases, Bases required 126 bases. Currently bases supplied is over by 144 bases.

What has to balancecodon→amino acidcodon \rightarrow amino\ acid

What is happening

You arrive at an insulin production line running short of one amino acid.

The chain comes out short every run. It needs 42 amino acids, each amino acid is called by one codon, and every codon is read from 3 bases of mRNA — the stop codon is supplied separately.