A cool guide to the genetic code: all 64 codons and the…
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A cool guide to the genetic code: all 64 codons and the amino acid each one builds
Made this because every codon table I found was either a wall of grey text or locked in a textbook. Colour is by amino acid class, so you can see at a glance that the whole bottom-left block is nonpolar. AUG is marked as start, and the three stops are in red.
The thing that finally made the redundancy click for me: the third base barely matters for a lot of them. Every codon starting with CU is leucine no matter what comes third, and the same is true for valine, proline, threonine, alanine and glycine. That is why a mutation in the third position is so often silent.
Printable version and an interactive one where you click an amino acid to light up all its codons: biochemtools.com/codon-chart.html http://biochemtools.com/codon-chart.html
#entertainment
Made this because every codon table I found was either a wall of grey text or locked in a textbook. Colour is by amino acid class, so you can see at a glance that the whole bottom-left block is nonpolar. AUG is marked as start, and the three stops are in red.
The thing that finally made the redundancy click for me: the third base barely matters for a lot of them. Every codon starting with CU is leucine no matter what comes third, and the same is true for valine, proline, threonine, alanine and glycine. That is why a mutation in the third position is so often silent.
Printable version and an interactive one where you click an amino acid to light up all its codons: biochemtools.com/codon-chart.html http://biochemtools.com/codon-chart.html
#entertainment
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