The codon table may look kind of intimidating at first. Fortunately, it's organized in a logical way, and it's not too hard to use once you understand this organization.

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There aren't any. Each letter is part of a codon, and codes for an amino acid. There's no 'placeholders' in between the codons.

The codon on the mRNA is actually AUC, and the UAG is the anti-codon on the tRNA. AUC encodes isoleucine, like shown in the drawing.

Each codon consists of three consecutive nucleotides (U, C, A, and G), for example, AUG, UUU, and CCG. The sequence of codons along an mRNA molecule dictates the sequence of amino …

Each codon specifies a particular amino acid, or, in some cases, provides a "stop" signal that ends translation. In addition, the codon AUG has a special role, serving as the start codon …

As these examples show, transcription is a process in which information is rewritten. Transcription is something we do in our everyday lives, and it's also something our cells must do, in a more …

These codons can be translated using a table like the one included below, which shows the amino acid encoded by each possible mRNA codon. Given the codon table above, what would be the …

The codon table may look kind of intimidating at first. Fortunately, it's organized in a logical way, and it's not too hard to use once you understand this organization.

Course: SHS Biology 2 > Lesson 3: Genetics: Central dogma ... Overview of transcription Transcription Translation (mRNA to protein)