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Codon

  • set of rules by which information encoded within genetic material is translated into proteins by living cells.
  • Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links amino acids in an order specified by mRNA, using transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to carry amino acids and to read the mRNA three nucleotides at a time.
  • Codon table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code

 

genetic code