anticodon

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an·ti·co·don ˌan-tē-ˈkō-ˌdän

ˌan-tī-

: a triplet of nucleotide bases in transfer RNA that identifies the amino acid carried and binds to a complementary codon in messenger RNA during protein synthesis at a ribosome

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1965, in the meaning defined above

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anticodon

noun

an·ti·co·don ˌant-i-ˈkō-ˌdän

: a triplet of nucleotide bases in transfer RNA that identifies the amino acid carried and binds to a complementary codon in messenger RNA during protein synthesis at a ribosome

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