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Nitrogenous vs Codon - What's the difference?

nitrogenous | codon |

As an adjective nitrogenous

is of, relating to, or containing nitrogen.

As a noun codon is

codon.

nitrogenous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, relating to, or containing nitrogen

    • Synonyms

    * nitrogenic

    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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