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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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