Biology
Textbooks
Boundless Biology
Genes and Proteins
Prokaryotic Transcription
Biology Textbooks Boundless Biology Genes and Proteins Prokaryotic Transcription
Biology Textbooks Boundless Biology Genes and Proteins
Biology Textbooks Boundless Biology
Biology Textbooks
Biology
Concept Version 12
Created by Boundless

Transcription in Prokaryotes

Genetic Code Table.

Genetic Code Table.

A codon is made of three nucleotides. Consequently there are 43 (=64) different codons. The 64 codons encode 22 different amino acids and three termination codons, also called stop codons.

Source

    Boundless vets and curates high-quality, openly licensed content from around the Internet. This particular resource used the following sources:

    "Original figure by Ross Whitwam. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0."
    Ross Whitwam CC BY-SA 3.0.

Related Terms

  • nucleotide
  • amino acid
  • redundancy
  • Subjects
    • Accounting
    • Algebra
    • Art History
    • Biology
    • Business
    • Calculus
    • Chemistry
    • Communications
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Microbiology
    • Physics
    • Physiology
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    • Statistics
    • U.S. History
    • World History
    • Writing

    Except where noted, content and user contributions on this site are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution required.