Note also that the codon for the amino acid methionine (AUG) acts as the start signal for protein synthesis in an mRNA. Moreover, the genetic code also includes stop codons, which do not code for ...

For example, a sequence for an mRNA molecule might be: AUG-GGU-CAA-UAA. Each one of these codons corresponds to a specific ...

This process is repeated until all the codons in the mRNA have been read by tRNA molecules, and the amino acids attached to the tRNAs have been linked together in the growing polypeptide chain in ...

The specificity of the anticodon-codon interaction ensures that the correct amino acid is incorporated into the polypeptide chain, maintaining the integrity of the protein sequence encoded by the mRNA ...

Different tRNAs have different three-base "anticodons" on one end that bind to complementary "codons" in the mRNA, and an amino acid at the other end. In this way, tRNAs bring over amino acids ...