The gene for urcity polypeptide contains 450 nucleotide pairs. Calculate how many amino acids this polypeptide contains. It has to come out 150 I don't know how to calculate. Thank you very much for your help.   

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It should have something to do with the fact that each AMK is represented by a triplet (three proteins). so about only 450/3 = 150

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