Your Patient Has a Fever of 39^oC, Sore Throat, Cough

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a fever of 39^oC, sore throat, cough, and chest pain. You ask her whether she has had pneumococcal vaccine this year, which protects against the the 23 most common strains of the causative bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. She says she has not. Your patient has a number of questions that you answer to help her understand the genetics of the organism causing her illness.
-You remind your patient that information for proteins is encoded in DNA ________. These are copied into ________ in the mRNA.

A) triplets; codons
B) codons; triplets
C) nucleotides; codons
D) codons; anticodons
E) anticodons; triplets