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Codons are triplets of nitrogenous bases on mRNA that code for a specific...

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three nucleotides—called a triplet or codon—codes for one particular amino acid in the protein. The nucleotide sequence in the DNA is first transcribed into a molecule of messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid).

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