The genetic code is the set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide...
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An expanded genetic code is an artificially modified genetic code in which one or more specific codons have been re-allocated to encode an amino acid...
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Genetics (redirect from Genetic Science)
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms'...
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different genetic codes. When translating from genome to protein, the use of the correct genetic code is essential. The mitochondrial codes are the relatively...
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which messenger RNA is derived. This in turn produces proteins through a genetic code in which a series of triplets (codons) of four possible nucleotides can...
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Gene (redirect from Genetic transmission)
the genetic "language". The genetic code specifies the correspondence during protein translation between codons and amino acids. The genetic code is nearly...
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Common descent (redirect from Common genetic code)
common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago in the Precambrian. The genetic code (the "translation table" according to which DNA information is translated...
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Nucleotide (redirect from Genetic code (ATGC))
the first known example of a living organism passing along an expanded genetic code to subsequent generations. The applications of synthetic nucleotides...
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Xenobiology (section Genetic code engineering)
nucleic acid (XNA) as information carriers. It also focuses on an expanded genetic code and the incorporation of non-proteinogenic amino acids, or “xeno amino...
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Mitochondrion (section Alternative genetic code)
codon, consistent with the standard genetic code for tryptophan. Of note, the arthropod mitochondrial genetic code has undergone parallel evolution within...
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