Associations to the word «Codon»
Noun
- Mrna
- Nucleotide
- Initiation
- Mutation
- Termination
- Biosynthesis
- Deletion
- Rna
- Pairing
- Substitution
- Insertion
- Subunit
- Bias
- Transcript
- Peptide
- Sequence
- Redundancy
- Allele
- Protein
- Gene
- Genes
- Hydrolysis
- Genome
- Degenerate
- Acid
- Cloning
- Tyrosine
- Residue
- Translation
- Stop
- Dna
- Gag
- Usage
- Specificity
- Scanning
- Polymerase
- Ras
- Transcription
- Synthesis
- Ire
- Bind
- Phenotype
- Sequencing
- Frame
- Carcinoma
- Code
- Messenger
- Editing
- Chromosome
- Vo
- Yeast
- Binding
- Strand
- Organism
- Cis
- Incorporation
- Amplification
- Aaa
- Mutant
- Catheter
- Template
- Sickle
- Molecule
- Promoter
- Shine
Adjective
Wiktionary
CODON, noun. (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation. Three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.
Dictionary definition
CODON, noun. A specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid.
Wise words
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there
is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.