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an•ti•co•don
(an′tē kō′don, an′tī-),USA pronunciation n. [Genetics.]
- Geneticsa sequence of three nucleotides in a region of transfer RNA that recognizes a complementary coding triplet of nucleotides in messenger RNA during translation by the ribosomes in protein biosynthesis. Cf. codon.
- anti- + codon 1960–65
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