Biology A-Level
Reading frame and codon translation
What Reading frame and codon translation means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Reading frame and codon translation
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The reading frame is identified and the codons are translated using a codon table to give the primary sequence of amino acids in the polypeptide.
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