Degeneracy of the Amino Acid Code Examination of the full table of codons enables one to immediately determine whether the "extra" codons are associated with redundancy or dead-end codes (Figure 3).

Starting from the four innermost letters and working to the outermost ring, this table shows shows which three-letter base sequence or codon encodes which amino acid. In the journal Angewandte ...

The genetic code is a set of three-letter combinations of nucleotides called codons, each of which corresponds to a specific amino acid or stop signal. The concept of codons was first described by ...