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Codon vs Covarion - What's the difference?

codon | covarion |

As nouns the difference between codon and covarion

is that codon is codon while covarion is (genetics) concomitantly variable codon.

codon

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia codon)
  • (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation. Three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.

    • Hyponyms

    * anticodon * stop codon * start codon

    Meronyms

    * nucleotide

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    covarion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia covarion) (en noun)
  • (genetics) concomitantly variable codon