Biology A-Level
premature stop codon
What premature stop codon means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The new reading frame often throws up a stop codon earlier than normal, so translation halts and a short, truncated polypeptide is released.
Topics that use premature stop codon
- Alteration of the sequence of bases in DNA can alter the (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- amino acid sequence
- base analogues
- codons and anticodons
- DNA replication errors
- downstream codons
- frameshift
- R group interactions
- substitution
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