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Definition: Codon |
CodonNoun1. A specific sequence of three adjacent bases on a strand of DNA or RNA that provides genetic code information for a particular amino acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A set of three nucleotides in a protein coding sequence that specifies individual amino acids or a termination signal (codon, terminator). Most codons are universal, but some organisms do not produce the transfer RNAs (RNA, transfer) complementary to all codons. These codons are referred to as unassigned codons (codons, nonsense). (references) |
Medicine | Any triplet of nucleotides(coding unit)in DNA or RNA(if RNA is the carrier of primary genetic information as in some viruses)that codes for particular amino acid or signals the beginning or end of the message. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Codon |
| Specialty definitions using "codon": aminoacyl-tRNA, Anticodon ♦ Codon, Initiator, Codon, Nonsense, Codon, Terminator ♦ ochre codon ♦ Peptide Chain Termination ♦ Reading Frames, RNA, Transfer, Met ♦ Selenocysteine. (references) |
| "Codon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Codon" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 86 | 35,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "codon": nonsense codon ♦ ochre codon ♦ stop codon ♦ termination codon ♦ terminator codon. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
codon | 18 |
codon table | 7 |
codon usage | 5 |
stop codon | 4 |
amino acid codon | 4 |
codon chart | 4 |
start codon | 3 |
codon p53 position | 2 |
codon coli e usage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "codon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | codon (codon mutation, triplet of bases), stopcodon (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), start-kodon (start codon), okkercodon (ochre codon), ochre-codon (ochre codon), nonsense-codon (nonsense codon), foretrukket kodon (codon bias), amber-codon (amber codon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | codon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ochre-päätekodoni (ochre codon), nonsense-kodoni (nonsense codon), lopetuskodoni (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), ensisijainen kodoni (codon bias), amber-päätekodoni (amber codon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | codon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kodon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κωδικόνιο χωρίς νόημα (nonsense codon), κωδικόνιο εκλογής (codon bias), κωδικόνιο τερματισμού (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), κεχριμπαρί κωδικόνιο (amber codon), ωχρό κωδικόνιο (ochre codon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | codone (Americanpintail, european pintail, pintail, pintail duck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odoncay codão (ochre codon), códão. (various references) codón sin sentido (nonsense codon), codón ocre (ochre codon), codón de terminación (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), codón de elección (codon bias), codón ámbar (amber codon). (various references) stoppkodon (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), stopkodon (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), stopcodon (stop codon, termination codon, terminator codon), ockra-kodon (ochre codon), ochre-codon (ochre codon), nonsense-kodon (nonsense codon), nonsense-codon (nonsense codon), amber-codon (amber codon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "codon": codons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "codon": anticodon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "codon": anticodons, thecodont, thecodonts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: condo. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: coon. | |
-2 letters: cod, con, coo, doc, don, nod, noo. | |
-3 letters: do, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: codons, condom, condor, condos, conoid, cordon. | |
+2 letters: cardoon, cofound, concord, condoes, condole, condoms, condone, condors, conoids, cordons, crooned, dornock, monodic, secondo. | |
+3 letters: acrodont, anconoid, boondock, canoodle, cardoons, chenopod, cocooned, cofounds, cojoined, cologned, comedown, commando, compound, conchoid, concords, condoled, condoler, condoles, condoned, condoner, condones, condores, confound, connoted, conodont, conoidal, consoled, convoked, convoyed, cooldown, cordoned, cordovan, coronoid, cottoned, creodont, dornocks, downcome, endozoic, golconda, honchoed, lockdown, monoacid, monocled, noctuoid, uncooked, uncooled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 64 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o d o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0064 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3781708180 |
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