During protein synthesis in an organism,the process stops at a certain point. Select the set of codons from the following that can terminate this process.

  • A
    $UUU, UCC, UAU$
  • B
    $UUC, UUA, UAC$
  • C
    $UAG, UGA, UAA$
  • D
    $UUG, UCA, UCG$

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