Biology A-Level
Codon–anticodon pairing and peptide bond formation
What Codon–anticodon pairing and peptide bond formation means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Codon–anticodon pairing and peptide bond formation
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Anticodons pair with complementary mRNA codons, and peptide bonds form between adjacent amino acids, producing a polypeptide whose sequence is set by the codon order.
Topics that use Codon–anticodon pairing and peptide bond formation
- Nucleotides and nucleic acids (OCR A-Level)
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