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codon

codon

2 7.8
Three DNA or RNA letters that tell the cell which amino acid to add or to stop making protein
  • noun
  • /ˈkoʊdɒn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : codón
  • Hsu and colleagues found p53 codon 249 mutations in 50% of HCCs from China.
  • codon mutations
  • codon optimization
  • codon usage

So you have in in triplets codon fragments.

Examples

  • The difference was significant for the group with the codon 54 mutation, but not for those with the codon 52 mutation.

    Academic text (1997)

  • And then does this stop codon terminate essential genes?

  • So what happens when a stop codon enters the A site?

  • The differences found in coding sequences became much larger when third codon positions were compared.

    Academic text (2015)

  • I was under the impression that DNA occurs in codons or groups of three bases long.

    Blog text (26)

  • Even in the same RNA sequence, these codons sometimes result in termination and are sometimes ignored.

    Academic text (1996)

  • For the CIL alignment, we performed a second analysis after partitioning by locus and codon position.

    Academic text (2018)

  • We also identified one Vietnamese patient with a codon 249 mutation in HCC.

    Academic text (1991)

  • So the two chromosomes are here and this codon specifies a serine amino acid here and a leucine here.

  • Codon sequences in DNA are crucial for determining the amino acids in proteins.

Synonyms

trinucleotide
vscodon
  • Specialized
8.0

Three chemical parts of DNA or RNA that often code for one building block of proteins

is the specific triplet that encodes an amino acid or signals termination

Surface Forms

codon singular
codons plural

Etymology

The word codon comes from the English word code and the scientific ending -on, so it literally means a small part of the 'code'. A codon is like a three-letter word in the genetic 'alphabet' that tells the cell which building block to add when making a protein.