During protein synthesis in an organism, at one point the process comes to a halt. Select the group of the three codons from the following, from which anyone of the three could bring about this halt.

  • [AIIMS 2006]
  • A

    $UUU, \,UCC, \,UAU$

  • B

    $UUC,\, UUA,\, UAC$

  • C

    $UAG, \,UGA,\, UAA$

  • D

    $UUG,\, UCA, \,UCG$

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