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    The genetic code is the set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide...
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    An expanded genetic code is an artificially modified genetic code in which one or more specific codons have been re-allocated to encode an amino acid...
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  • different genetic codes. When translating from genome to protein, the use of the correct genetic code is essential. The mitochondrial codes are the relatively...
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    Genetics (redirect from Genetic Science)
    Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms'...
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  • which messenger RNA is derived. This in turn produces proteins through a genetic code in which a series of triplets (codons) of four possible nucleotides can...
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  • common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago in the Precambrian. The genetic code (the "translation table" according to which DNA information is translated...
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  • nucleic acid (XNA) as information carriers. It also focuses on an expanded genetic code and the incorporation of non-proteinogenic amino acids, or “xeno amino...
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    codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon...
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    the first known example of a living organism passing along an expanded genetic code to subsequent generations. The applications of synthetic nucleotides...
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    Gene (redirect from Genetic transmission)
    the genetic "language". The genetic code specifies the correspondence during protein translation between codons and amino acids. The genetic code is nearly...
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    codon, consistent with the standard genetic code for tryptophan. Of note, the arthropod mitochondrial genetic code has undergone parallel evolution within...
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    termination. In the standard genetic code, there are three different termination codons: There are variations on the standard genetic code, and alternative stop...
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    generated. The matching from nucleotide triple to amino acid is called the genetic code. The translation is performed by a large complex of functional RNA and...
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  • experiences of a species can become incorporated into that species' genetic code, not by a Lamarckian process that encodes specific memories, but by a...
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    Amino acid (redirect from ATC code B05BA01)
    α-amino acids incorporated into proteins. Only these 22 appear in the genetic code of life. Amino acids can be classified according to the locations of...
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    pterobranch taxa Rhabdopleura compacta and Cephalodiscus use alternative genetic codes in their mitochondrial genome. Sato, A; Rickards RB; Holland PWH (2008)...
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    exon of a gene coding for a protein, such that the produced amino acid sequence is not modified. This is possible because the genetic code is "degenerate"...
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    Mutation (redirect from Genetic mutation)
    modified. Synonymous mutations occur due to the degenerate nature of the genetic code. If this mutation does not result in any phenotypic effects, then it...
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    discoveries were necessary.  The discovery of DNA as a means to transfer the genetic code of life from one cell to another and between generations was essential...
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    incorporated during translation (protein synthesis) as directed by the genetic code, just like the standard amino acids. It is encoded in mRNA by the UAG...
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    Hatfield, D. L.; Gladyshev, V. N. (2010). "Dual functions of codons in the genetic code". Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 45 (4): 257–65...
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    encoded in the genetic code. In general, the genetic code specifies 20 standard amino acids; but in certain organisms the genetic code can include selenocysteine...
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    notable for the alternative genetic code of its mitochondria which use TTA as a stop codon instead of coding for Leucine. This code is represented by NCBI...
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    was present in early versions of the genetic code, but methionine intruded into the final version of the genetic code due to the fact it is used in the cofactor...
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  • the genetic code, exhibited as the multiplicity of three-base pair codon combinations that specify an amino acid. The degeneracy of the genetic code is...
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  • histone code and additional epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation. The base for the epigenetic code is a system above the genetic code of a single...
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    a codon, corresponds to a single amino acid, and there is a specific genetic code by which each possible combination of three bases corresponds to a specific...
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    Gabriella and a son and daughter. Woese turned his attention to the genetic code while setting up his lab at General Electric's Knolls Laboratory in the...
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    sequence (DNA or RNA) is not altered—only the frame in which it is read. Genetic code Directionality (molecular biology) Sense (molecular biology) Rainey S...
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  • Genetic codes is a simple ASN.1 database hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and listing all the known Genetic codes. Genetic...
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