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stop codon

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stop codon [′stäp ′kō‚dän]
(genetics)


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The scientist also includes explanations of cell division and genetics detailed enough to discuss mRNA and stop codons.
BBD's mutation was shown to be a thymine mutated from a cytosine at the 2278 nucleotide location in the cDNA sequence causing a change from arginine to a stop codon at position 760 in the amino acid sequence.
The researchers changed the anticodon in their new tRNA to match up with the UAG stop codon instead of the codon for glutamine.
 
 
 
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