Answer to Question #171016 in Genetics for Sam

Question #171016

The genetic code consists of 3-letter words. What does this mean?


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2021-03-13T13:20:47-0500

These three-letter words are called codons. Each codon stands for a specific amino acid, so if the message in mRNA is 900 nucleotides long, which corresponds to 300 codons, it will be translated into a chain of 300 amino acids.


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