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What makes up a code for each amino acid

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hree nucleotides—called a triplet or codon—codes for one particular amino acid in the protein. ... Each codon stands for a specific amino acid, so if the message in mRNA is 900 nucleotides long, which corresponds to 300 codons, it will be translated into a chain of 300 amino acids
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