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  • 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. (2009), Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona: Ed. Elsevier, 13ª Edición. (Revisión científica a cargo del Dr. Rafael Oliva Virgili).
    • Definition: http://ciencia.glosario.net/biotecnologia/cod%F3n-10070.html http://www.portalesmedicos.com/diccionario_medico/index.php/Codon http://www.amgen.es/doc3.php?op=profesionales_medicos2&ap=biotecnologia⊂=bio10 http://www.asociacioneducar.com/glosario.php
    • Context: http://medmol.es/glosario/67/
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