THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Codon / mitochondria
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anti codon / chloroplast
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codon / anticodon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Each group of three bases in mRNA constitutes a codon, and each codon specifies a particular amino acid (hence, it is a triplet code).
Detailed explanation-2: -The triplets of nitrogenous bases in DNA that code for amino acids are called codons. There are 64 codons, 61 of which code for different amino acids. The remaining three codons are stop/termination codons, which act as stop signals for protein synthesis.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mRNA bases are grouped into sets of three, called codons. Each codon has a complementary set of bases, called an anticodon.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is the messenger RNA codon that carries the message specifying a certain amino acid; it is the transfer RNA that transfers that amino acid to the growing protein chain. The tRNA anticodon is a sequence of three nucleotides that are the complement of the three nucleotides in the mRNA codon.
Detailed explanation-5: -An anticodon is a trinucleotide sequence located at one end of a transfer RNA (tRNA) molecule, which is complementary to a corresponding codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence.