codon fidelity
codon fidelity
[′kō‚dän fi‚del·əd·ē] (cell and molecular biology)
The constancy of the genetic coding process as maintained during deoxyribonucleic acid replication and the synthesis of proteins by a series of proofreading reactions that remove errors.
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