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Codon
A triplet of nucleotides [three nucleic acid units (residues) in a row] within messenger RNA (mRNA) that code for an amino acid (triplet code) or a termination signal.


GENETIC CODE,  TERMINATION CODON (SEQUENCE),  AMINO ACID,  NUCLEOTIDE,  INFORMATIONAL MOLECULES,  MESSENGER RNA (mRNA),  LEADER SEQUENCE (mRNA)



The term "CODON" also appears in the definition(s) of the following term(s):
Anticodon
 Nonsense Mutation
 Redundancy
 Site-Directed Mutagenesis (SDM)
 
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