Terme de Glossaire

Trinucleotide

A synonym of codon. It concerns a triplet of A, C and U nucleotides of messenger RNA. The genetic code contains 64 different codons. Each one designates one of the 20 natural amino acids. Several codons can designate the same amino acid. Codons play a fundamental role in protein synthesis.

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