Which one of the following pairs of codons is correctly matched with their function or the signal for the particular amino acid?

  • A
    $AUG, ACG$ - Start/methionine
  • B
    $UUA, UCA$ - Leucine
  • C
    $GUU, GCU$ - Alanine
  • D
    $UAG, UGA$ - Stop

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