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Adelocodonic
Adelocodonic A*del`o*co*don"ic, a. [Gr. ? invisible + ? a bell.] (Zo["o]l.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
Phanerocodonic
Phanerocodonic Phan`er*o*co*don"ic, a. [Gr. ? evident + ? a bell.] (Zo["o]l.) Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.
Phocodont
Phocodont Pho"co*dont, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Phocodontia.
Phocodontia
Phocodontia Pho`co*don"ti*a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a seal + ?, ?, a tooth.] (Zo["o]l.) A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.
Thecodont
Thecodont The"co*dont, a. [Gr. ? a case + ?, ?, a tooth.] 1. (Anat.) Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws. 2. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the thecodonts.
Thecodont
Thecodont The"co*dont, n. (Paleon.) One of the Thecodontia.
Thecodontia
Thecodontia The`co*don"ti*a, n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebr[ae] and the teeth implanted in sockets.

Meaning of Codon from wikipedia

- within genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences of nucleotide triplets, or codons) into proteins. Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links...
- A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA...
- In molecular biology, a stop codon (or termination codon) is a codon (nucleotide triplet within messenger RNA) that signals the termination of the translation...
- Codon usage bias refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA. A codon is a series of three nucleotides (a...
- The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome. The start codon always codes for methionine in eukaryotes...
- Degeneracy or redundancy of codons is the redundancy of the genetic code, exhibited as the multiplicity of three-base pair codon combinations that specify...
- machinery of a cell called the ribosome. Complementation of a 3-nucleotide codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) by a 3-nucleotide anticodon of the tRNA results...
- The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI) is the most widespread technique for analyzing codon usage bias. As opposed to other measures of codon usage bias, such...
- frames are defined as spans of DNA sequence between the start and stop codons. Usually, this is considered within a studied region of a prokaryotic DNA...
- point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a nonsense codon, or a premature stop codon in the transcribed mRNA, and leads to a truncated, incomplete...