Molecular Biology Reference
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Guide
...termed a codon. There are 64 codon combinations and only 20 natural amino acids, so multiple codons can encode...multiple codons code for each amino acid. There are 20 amino acids plus a start and stop codon. Below you...ochre) *AUG is the most common start codon. Alternative start codons include CUG in eukaryotes and GUG in...degeneracy. Refer to the amino acid table below for codon-amino acid pairs. Over the past two decades, researchers...also expanded the genetic code by redirecting some codons to encode for synthetic amino acids. Plasmids and...of replication, and an MCS. They are small and optimized to help in the initial cloning of a DNA fragment...field of recombinant DNA technology have been optimized for studying and manipulating genes. For instance...