codon — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A handbell used for summoning monks.

2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.

Substantivo

1. A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.

   Termos mais específicos

   anticodondicodonhomocodonstop codonstart codontricodoninitiation codontermination codon

Substantivo

1. a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid

   Termos mais gerais

   sequence