codon

/koh-don/US // ˈkoʊ dɒn //UK // (ˈkəʊdɒn) //

密码子,编码子,码子,编码子的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Genetics.
- : a triplet of adjacent nucleotides in the messenger RNA chain that codes for a specific amino acid in the synthesis of a protein molecule.

Racaniello adds that if a lab researcher was trying to modify a virus to measure its effect, the researcher wouldn’t use the codon pairing identified by Wade because its effect would be too unpredictable.
An even more telling detail to Wade is that this uncommon arginine codon shows up twice in that small segment of the virus’s genome.