A codon chart is a visual representation that maps each of the 64 codons to their corresponding amino acids or signals. There ...

Hence, the resulting products provided clues that the researchers could use to deduce potential codon–amino acid relationships. For example, when A and C were mixed with polynucleotide ...

Following this discovery, Nirenberg, Philip Leder, and Gobind Khorana identified the rest of the genetic code and fully described each three-letter codon and its corresponding amino acid.

Given that the TCG codon could efficiently instruct the ribosome to add the unconventional amino acid to a desired protein, the scientists reasoned that it might also add the new subunit to other ...