If the DNA coding strand is ATGTGTAGTGCGAGTTGA, what would the amino acid sequence be?

The amino acid sequence will be tyrosine-threonine-serine-arginine-serine-threonine.

Explanation: During protein synthesis, DNA is first copied into an mRNA in a process known as transcription catalyzed by an enzyme called RNA polymerase. The messenger RNA (mRNA) then leaves the nucleus to the ribosome where it is used as a template for protein synthesis.

The genetic information encoded in the mRNA is read in triplets by the ribosome and used to synthesize protein. The triplets of nucleotides on the mRNA that codes for amino acids are called codons. There are 64 universal codons, three of them are stop codons because they encode for no known amino acid while sixty one of them code for the twenty standard amino acids.

The mRNA strand that can be transcribed from the DNA coding strand ATGTGTAGTGCGAGTTGA is UACACAUCACGCUCAACU.

Each amino acid is coded for by at least one codon. Some amino acids are coded for by more than one codon. In the above mRNA strand

(UACACAUCACGCUCAACU),

UAC codes for tyrosine,

ACA codes for threonine,

UCA codes for serine,

CGC codes for arginine,

UCA codes for serine, and

ACU codes for threonine.