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noun

codon

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

In a sentence

Three example sentences with codon, each labelled with its topic.

  • A single codon change swapped one building block in the chain, and the protein folded wrongly ever after.

    Science

  • The test looks for a stop codon appearing early in the gene, which cuts the finished protein short.

    Medicine

  • The compression tool treats each codon as one symbol, which shrinks a genome file by roughly two thirds.

    Technology

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