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Cogon vs Codon - What's the difference?

cogon | codon |

As nouns the difference between cogon and codon

is that cogon is any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially species: Imperata cylindrica while codon is 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.

cogon

English

Noun

  • Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata , especially .

    • Synonyms

    * cogon grass, cogongrass (US), satintail, cotton wool grass, silver spike (southern Africa), speargrass (Nigeria), blady grass (Australia)

    See also

    * (Imperata cylindrica) * (Imperata) * (Imperata cylindrica) * (Imperata)

    Anagrams

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    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

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