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genetic code expression

• In heredity: Translation

  …three unpaired nucleotides, called an anticodon. The anticodon of any one tRNA fits perfectly into the mRNA codon that codes for the amino acid attached to that tRNA; for example, the mRNA codon UUU, which codes for the amino acid phenylalanine, will be bound by the anticodon AAA. Thus, any…

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• In heredity: Repair of mutation

  For example, mutations in the anticodon region of a tRNA gene can result in a tRNA that sometimes inserts an amino acid at an erroneous stop codon; if the original mutation is caused by a stop codon, which arrests translation at that point, then a tRNA anticodon change can insert…

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