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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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mRNA anatomy
and ending with a stop codon (UAA), and the 3' untranslated region (3' UTR). RNA is able to control its own transcription, given the right trigger. See how the RNA-based riboswitch twists into a ...