You are presented with the question "What is the genetic code in mRNA that can be translated?" and the following answer choices: 
- made
 - SO2
 - alleles
 - water
 - a gene
 - carbonic acid
 - genetic drift
 - complex

Now knowing that translation reads the genetic code in mRNA and makes a protein and every protein is a translated gene, choose the best answer.


 

     a gene    