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).
Note that there are 3 additional codons for chain termination, i.e. there are 64 DNA (and thus 64 different mRNA) codons, but only 61 of them specify amino acids. Table 5 shows the genetic code for the translation of all 64 DNA codons, starting from DNA over mRNA and tRNA to amino acid.In the last column, the table shows the different tRNA anticodons minimally necessary to translate all DNA codons into amino acids and sums up the number in the final row.enetic Code and Amino Acid Translation. Table 1 shows the genetic code of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), i.e. it shows all 64 possible combinations of codons composed of three nucleotide bases (tri-nucleotide units) that specify amino acids during protein assembling.