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Scientists accidentally discover a pond organism that uses stop codons to build proteins instead of ending them — rewriting biology’s most universal rule
Somewhere in a sample of ordinary pond water, a single-celled organism has been quietly breaking one of biology’s most ...
61 codons specify one of the 20 amino acids that make up proteins 3 codons are stop codons, which signal the termination of protein synthesis Importantly, the genetic code is nearly universal, shared ...
A 3D illustration of a transfer RNA molecule hovering over a messenger RNA. Transfer RNA acts as an adaptor to convert messenger RNA codons into amino acids during protein synthesis. Credit: ...
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