Answer :

27 different tripeptides can be formed with three different amino acids (methionine, histidine, and arginine).

This can be simply calculated by formula [tex]x^{y\\[/tex]  where "[tex]x[/tex]" represents no. of amino acids & "[tex]y[/tex]" represents the length of peptide.

In this case, [tex]x[/tex]= 3 & [tex]y[/tex]=3

Hence, Total no. of tripeptides = [tex]3^{3}[/tex] = 3×3×3 = 27

All the possible different tripeptides from methionine(M), histidine(H), and arginine(R) are as follows:

Case 1: If all the three amino acids are same,

1) MMM  2) HHH  3) RRR  

Case 2 : If two amino acids are same & one amino acid is different,

1)) MMH  2) MMR  3) HHM  4) HHR  5) RRM  6) RRH 7) MHM  8) HMH  9) MRM  10) HRH  11) RHR  12) RMR  13) HMM  14) RMM  15) MHH  16) RHH  17) MRR  18) HRR

Case 3: If all the amino acids are different,

1) MHR  2) MRH  3) HMR  4) HRM  5) RMH  6) RHM

So the total possibilities are = 3+18+6 = 27

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