Stop (nonsense) Codon At Biology Glossary

What is it? A UAG, UAA. or UGA codons which is not representing any cognate aminoacyl tRNA in most organisms. When the ribosome encounters a stop codon in the mRNA, a termination factor interacts with the ribosome causing polypeptide synthesis to stop and the ribosom

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