Genetic code (redirect from Codon)
within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide triplets, or codons) into proteins. Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links...
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A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA...
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In molecular biology, a stop codon (or termination codon) is a codon (nucleotide triplet within messenger RNA) that signals the termination of the translation...
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Codon usage bias refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA. A codon is a series of three nucleotides (a...
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The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome. The start codon always codes for methionine in eukaryotes...
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Degeneracy or redundancy of codons is the redundancy of the genetic code, exhibited as the multiplicity of three-base pair codon combinations that specify...
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The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is the most widespread technique for analyzing codon usage bias. As opposed to other measures of codon usage bias, such...
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Codon may refer to any of the following: a three-base sequence of DNA that encodes a single amino acid in the genetic code Codon (plant), a genus of plants...
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frames are defined as spans of DNA sequence between the start and stop codons. Usually, this is considered within a studied region of a prokaryotic DNA...
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Nonsense mutation (redirect from Premature stop codon)
point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a nonsense codon, or a premature stop codon in the transcribed mRNA, and leads to a truncated, incomplete...
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Transfer RNA (redirect from Anti codon)
machinery of a cell called the ribosome. Complementation of a 3-nucleotide codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) by a 3-nucleotide anticodon of the tRNA results...
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Codon schenckii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Codon. It is native to Namibia and the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is also...
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Codon royenii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Codon. It is native to Namibia and the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is also known...
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corresponding to the mRNA codon, in the case of the start codon, this is the amino acid methionine. The next codon (adjacent to the start codon) is then bound by...
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binding of complementary transfer RNA (tRNA) anticodon sequences to mRNA codons. The tRNAs carry specific amino acids that are chained together into a polypeptide...
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Expanded genetic code (section Codon assignment)
is an artificially modified genetic code in which one or more specific codons have been re-allocated to encode an amino acid that is not among the 22...
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genetic code, there are 43 = 64 possible codons (3 nucleotide sequences). For translation, each of these codons requires a tRNA molecule with an anticodon...
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Amino acid (redirect from Codon alphabet)
PMID 5080161. Codons can also be expressed by: CTN, ATH, TTR; MTY, YTR, ATA; MTY, HTA, YTG Codons can also be expressed by: TWY, CAY, TGG Codons can also be...
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Codon is a small genus of plants from South Africa in the family Codonaceae in the order Boraginales. The genus Codon comprises two species. Codon was...
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Codon reassignment is the biological process via which the genetic code of a cell is changed as a response to the environment. It may be caused by alternative...
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Split gene theory (section Stop codons are key parts of every genetic element in the eukaryotic gene)
important intron structures and regulatory sequences are derived from stop codons. In this introns-first framework, the spliceosomal machinery and the nucleus...
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Ka/Ks ratio (section Individual codon approach)
sequences as codons, groups of three nucleotides. Each codon represents a single amino acid in a protein chain. However, there are more codons (64) than...
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Frameshift mutation (section Codon-triplet importance)
nature of gene expression by codons, the insertion or deletion can change the reading frame (the grouping of the codons), resulting in a completely different...
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encoded by the stop codons—TGA and TAG respectively.) The mismatch between the number of codons and amino acids allows several codons to code for a single...
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Koudounia (redirect from Codon (Musical instruments))
The Koudounia (Greek: κουδούνια), are bell-like percussion instruments. Most often, they are made from copper and upon playing (that is, hitting them with...
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is the initiation codon encoding a methionine amino acid at the N-terminus of the protein. (Rarely, GUG is used as an initiation codon, but methionine is...
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was first isolated in 1921 by John Howard Mueller. It is encoded by the codon AUG. It was named by Satoru Odake in 1925, as an abbreviation of its structural...
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amino acids are coded for by more than one three-base-pair codon; since some of the codons for a given amino acid differ by just one base pair from others...
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Covarion (redirect from Concomitantly variable codon)
variable codons, is a technique in computational phylogenetics that allows the hypothesized rate of molecular evolution at individual codons in a set...
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both carry a mutation at codon 178 of the prion protein gene. FFI is also invariably linked to the presence of the methionine codon at position 129 of the...
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