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Reading a Codon Chart and Identifying Amino Acids
For example, a sequence for an mRNA molecule might be ... there are 64 possible codons. A codon chart is a visual ...
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Translation: DNA to mRNA to Protein
Within the ribosome, the mRNA ... AUG start codon, forming the initiation complex. Table 1 shows the N-terminal sequences of proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, based on a sample of 170 ...
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Nucleic Acids to Amino Acids: DNA Specifies Protein
The simplest way to decipher the code would be to start with an mRNA molecule of known ... could use to deduce potential codon–amino acid relationships. For example, when A and C were mixed ...