GENETICCODE

Genetic code

The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded within genetic material is translated into proteins by living cells. Biological decoding is accomplished by the ribosome, which links amino acids in an order specified by mRNA, using transfer RNA molecules to carry amino acids and to read the mRNA three nucleotides at a time. The genetic code is highly similar among all organisms and can be expressed in a simple table with 64 entries.

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genetic code

Noun

  1. the set of rules by which the sequence of bases in DNA are translated into the amino acid sequence of proteins


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