- Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 168
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Augustine Edith EMENE, Gloria GONZÁLEZ-CALERO, Rosa María FERRERAS LOZANO, Sergio GONZÁLEZ GIL
- Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
- Term: codon
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A group of three RNA or DNA bases that encodes a single amino acid.
- Context: If it took two bases to make a codon, then there would be 42 possible combinations of two bases for 16 possible amino acids, which is still not enough.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 129)
- Definition: BROWN, T. (2002) Genomes. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Liss [Online] Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21121/#A5841 [Accessed 28 April 2013] ; CLARK, D., PAZDERNIK, N. J. (2013) Molecular Biology: Understanding the Genetic Revolution. USA: Elsevier Academic press [Online] Available at: http://books.google.es/books?id=Il_mR7T2PxMC&pg=PA376&dq=codon+genetic+code&hl=es&sa=X&ei=fQ-AUeKFO8mw7AbkpoDQDQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=codon%20genetic%20code&f=false [Accessed 1 May 2013]
- Context: CAMPBELL, M. K., FARRELL, S. O. (2012) Biochemistry. 7th Ed. USA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning [Online] Available at: http://books.google.es/books?id=crAnYWLB09QC&pg=PA324&dq=codon+genetic+code&hl=es&sa=X&ei=fQ-AUeKFO8mw7AbkpoDQDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=clone&f=false [Accessed 1 May 2013]
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