dactylospasm; Dactylosporangium aurantiacum subsp. hamdenesis; dactylozooid; dactylus-dactyly; Dad; daddy-long-legs; DADH; DADMS; DAF; DAF16; daffodil; Daffyâs Elixer; Dafilon; DAFNE; daft lamb; DAG; dagga; Dagger Sign; dagging; Dagnini; Dagnini, Giuseppe; Dagnini, Guido; dags; DAGU; DAH
These are comprised of 20 unique amino acids, and each is coded for by a stretch of DNA known as a codon. Codons are always 3 base-pairs (nucleotides) in length. DNA is made of 4 unique nucleotides; (A)denine, (G)uanine, (C)ytosine and (T)hymine. This means that there are 64 unique codons that can be made with these 4 bases (4*4*4). If codons were only 2 bases in length then the variety of codons that could be created would be less (only 16 unique sequences if there are still 4 nucleotides). More unique nucleotides would be required to get enough unique sequences to code for the 20 amino acids (as well as the STOP codons).
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: A codon is a base triplet of nucleotides on a strand of RNA. Ribsomes, when converting from DNA to make proteins by means of Transcription and Translation, are read in terms of three nucleotides, which are codons. But they can also be used for the complementary DNA base triplet.ating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: A codon is a base triplet of nucleotides on a strand of RNA. Ribsomes, when converting from DNA to make proteins by means of Transcription and Translation, are read in terms of three nucleotides, which are codons. But they can also be used for the complementary DNA base triplet.