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Reading a Codon Chart and Identifying Amino Acids
AUG-GGU-CAA-UAA. Each one of these codons corresponds to a specific amino acid. Because there are four possible nucleotides, ...
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The Information in DNA Determines Cellular Function via Translation
Tryptophan is unique because it is the only amino acid specified by a single codon. The remaining 19 amino acids are specified by between two and six codons each. The codons UAA, UAG, and UGA are ...
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Translation: DNA to mRNA to Protein
The tRNA that corresponds to the second codon can then bind to the A site ... at the end of a protein-coding sequence in mRNA: UAA, UAG, and UGA. No tRNAs recognize these codons.