triplet code


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Noun1.triplet code - the normal version of the genetic code in which a sequence of three nucleotides codes for the synthesis of a specific amino acid
genetic code - the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells
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Many of you may remember the triplet code "lookup tables" from some textbook, telling you how each of the 64 possible three-base DNA genome elements codes for one of the 20 amino acids, or one of the three STOP codons: TTT is phenylalanine, ATC is isoleucine, and so on.
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Each group of three nucleotide bases or triplet code (G-T-A, for example) produces a specific amino acid.
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Led by Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney, researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute in Eng land began by converting the five files into digital form (not bits but "trits"--a triplet code comprising zero, one and two).
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