See Also: codon(dictionary)
Codon(health)
codon(medicine)
umber codon(medicine)
start codon(medicine)
stop codon(medicine)
amber codon(medicine)
ambiguous codon(medicine)
codon, terminator(medicine)
codon, nonsense(medicine)

Codon (health)


A set of any three adjacent bases in the DNA or RNA. There are 64 different codons of which 61 specify the incorporation of an amino acid into a polypeptide chain while the remaining three are stop codons that signal the end of a polypeptide.