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codon

/ˈkəʊdɒn/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A handbell used for summoning monks.
  2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.
  3. A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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