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Genetic code — Wikipedia (en)

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Genetic code is a set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide triplets or codons) into proteins. Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links proteinogenic amino acids in an order specified by messenger RNA (mRNA), using transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to carry amino acids and to read the mRNA three nucleotides at a time. The genetic code is highly similar among all organisms and can be expressed in a simple table with 64 entries. The codons specify which amino acid will be added next during protein biosynthesis. With some exceptions, a three-nucleotide codon in a nucleic acid sequence specifies a single amino acid. The vast majority of genes are encoded with a single scheme (see the RNA codon table). That scheme is often called the canonical or standard genetic code, or simply the genetic code, though variant codes (such as in mitochondria) exist.

Tema degli esploratori: scienze della vita e salute (deposito sistematico; categoria «Molecular biology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Genetic code» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
Wikidata Q180618 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180618
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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