table. The DNA codons in such tables occur on the sense DNA strand and are arranged in a 5′-to-3′ direction. Different tables with alternate codons are...
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Genetic code (redirect from Codon)
translate information encoded within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide triplets or codons) into proteins. Translation is accomplished by the...
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List of genetic codes (redirect from DNA codes)
the DNA and RNA codon tables. Comparison of alternative translation tables for all codons (using IUPAC amino acid codes): Three translation tables have...
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Translation (biology) (redirect from RNA translation)
transfer RNA (tRNA) anticodon sequences to mRNA codons. The tRNAs carry specific amino acids that are chained together into a polypeptide as the mRNA passes...
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Central dogma of molecular biology (redirect from DNA makes RNA makes protein)
information within a biological system. It is often stated as "DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes protein", although this is not its original meaning. It was...
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codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome. The start codon always codes for methionine in eukaryotes and...
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Sense (molecular biology) (redirect from Negative-sense RNA)
"ambisense" below). The DNA sense strand looks like the messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript, and can therefore be used to read the expected codon sequence that will...
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In molecular biology, a stop codon (or termination codon) is a codon (nucleotide triplet within messenger RNA) that signals the termination of the translation...
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in the nucleotide sequence of DNA. This is first transformed into mRNA, then tRNA specifies which three-nucleotide codon from the genetic code corresponds...
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an ORF therefore only applies to spliced mRNAs, not genomic DNA, since introns may contain stop codons and/or cause shifts between reading frames. An...
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RNA is transcribed from ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and then bound to ribosomal proteins to form small and large ribosome subunits. rRNA is the physical and...
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evolution. Codon usage tables detailing genomic codon usage bias for organisms in GenBank and RefSeq can be found in the HIVE-Codon Usage Tables (HIVE-CUTs)...
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language (ISO-639 language code), a Great Lakes Bantu language DNA and RNA codon tables This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Nonsense mutation (redirect from Premature stop codon)
sequence of DNA that results in a nonsense codon, or a premature stop codon in the transcribed mRNA, and leads to a truncated, incomplete, and possibly nonfunctional...
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Chargaff's rules (category DNA)
nucleotide-level to populations of codon triplets, in the case of whole single-stranded Human genome DNA. A kind of "codon-level second Chargaff's parity...
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which binds upstream to the AUG start codon on the mRNA. The 3′-end of 16S RNA binds to the proteins S1 and S21 which are known to be involved in initiation...
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transport chain and 24 genes for mitochondrial RNAs; these genes are broken down into 2 rRNA genes and 22 tRNA genes. The size of an animal mtDNA plasmid is...
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to these codons. These variable codes for amino acids are allowed because of modified bases in the first base of the anticodon of the tRNA, and the base-pair...
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(translation table 2) is the genetic code found in the mitochondria of all vertebrata. AGA and AGG were thought to have become mitochondrial stop codons early...
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GC-content (category DNA)
In molecular biology and genetics, GC-content (or guanine-cytosine content) is the percentage of nitrogenous bases in a DNA or RNA molecule that are either...
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Expanded genetic code (section Codon assignment)
to encode, an unused codon to adopt, a tRNA that recognizes this codon, and a tRNA synthetase that recognizes only that tRNA and only the non-standard...
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CRISPR gene editing (section RNA editing)
1995. This initial work used synthetic RNA antisense oligonucleotides complementary to a pre-mature stop codon mutation in a dystrophin sequence to activate...
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Denaturation (biochemistry) (redirect from DNA denaturation)
acids. A protein is created by ribosomes that "read" RNA that is encoded by codons in the gene and assemble the requisite amino acid combination from the...
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Single-nucleotide polymorphism (redirect from Polymorphic DNA)
dysplasia and progeria syndrome) nonsense – point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed...
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Common descent (section RNA world)
definitive evidence in favor of universal common descent. The way that codons (DNA triplets) are mapped to amino acids seems to be strongly optimised. Richard...
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the standard genetic code, described at Genetic code#RNA codon table (see also DNA codon table) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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Abiogenesis (redirect from Abiogenesis and Biogenesis)
metabolism, and nucleic acid DNA and RNA for the mechanisms of heredity. Any successful theory of abiogenesis must explain the origins and interactions...
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Variation in translation of the mitochondrial genetic code occurs when DNA codons result in non-standard amino acids has been identified in invertebrates...
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Amino acid (redirect from Codon alphabet)
a 'polypeptide world', possibly later followed by the 'RNA world' and the 'DNA world'. Codon–amino acids mappings may be the biological information system...
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Mitochondrion (section DNA repair)
RNA editing, which is common in mitochondria. In higher plants, it was thought that CGG encoded for tryptophan and not arginine; however, the codon in...
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