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The rules by which the base sequences of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are translated into the amino acid sequences of proteins. Each sequence of DNA...


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Figure 1.DNA double helix and mRNA copy made from it by transcription.
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Figure 3.Universal (standard) genetic code. Each of the 64 codons found in mRNA specifies an amino acid (indicated by the three-letter abbreviation) or the end of the protein chain (stop). The amino acids are phenylalanine (Phe), leucine (Leu), isoleucine (Ile), methionine (Met), valine (Val), serine (Ser), proline (Pro), threonine (Thr), alanine (Ala), tyrosine (Tyr), histidine (His), glutamine (Gln), asparagine (Asn), lysine (Lys), aspartic acid (Asp), glutamic acid (Glu), cysteine (Cys), tryptophan (Trp), arginine (Arg), and glycine (Gly).
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Figure 4.A transfer RNA in the cloverleaf representation is shown with a two-dimensional projection of how the structure is folded into an L-shaped molecule in three dimensions. The short horizontal and vertical lines represent base pairs that form within the structure. (Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Buechter)
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