codon
IPA: kˈɑdʌn
noun
- A handbell used for summoning monks.
- The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.
- (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.
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Examples of "codon" in Sentences
- Number of nucleotides in a codon.
- Methods of analyzing codon usage bias.
- Factors contributing to codon usage bias.
- No tRNA can recognize or bind to this codon.
- For every codon there's a different tRNA molecule.
- It starts with an ATG codon and ends with a stop codon.
- It seems to happen all at once, rather than codon by codon.
- Translation starts with a chain initiation codon start codon .
- The genetic codon for phenylalanine was the first to be discovered.
- Coding regions begin with the start codon and end with a stop codon.