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Biology Wise: What Is a Stop Codon?

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A stop codon is a nucleotide triplet in messenger RNA that signals the end of a protein during the translation process. Read about how this works, the different types of stop codons, and how a mutation can sometimes occur.

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protein synthesis, dna, messenger rna
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genetic code molecules, nonsense codons, nucleotide triplet, termination codons, translation process, types of stop codons, buzzle.com: biologywise: what is a stop codon?, mrna, rna structure
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional