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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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