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What Is the purpose of an amino acid codon chart?

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Each group of three bases in mRNA constitutes a codon, and each codon specifies a particular amino acid (hence, it is a triplet code). The mRNA sequence is thus used as a template to assemble—in order—the chain of amino acids that form a protein.

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They specify the order of amino acids in a protein from N-terminus to C-terminus

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