what is the difference between an anticodon and a codon

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anonymous · Answer

A codon is the triplet sequence in the messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript which specifies a corresponding amino acid (or a start or stop command). An anticodon is the corresponding triplet sequence on the transfer RNA (tRNA) which brings in the specific amino acid to the ribosome during translation.

anonymous · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peptide_syn.png You see the blue mRNA on the bottom? Well the little parts that have letters on them and stick out are called the CODON. The yellow tRNA part that attaches to the codon is called the ANTICODON. It makes sense right? The codon matches up with the anticodon...

anonymous · Answer

So maybe you're asking for what they do. The mRNA is a copy of your DNA. Think of your DNA as your birth certificate locked up in the safe and think of the mRNA as a photocopy of your DNA (you know, to keep the original document safe). The mRNA goes out of the cell nucleus and gets read by a ribosome. But what does it mean by that? Well, What happens when an mRNA gets read by a ribosome is that a little molecule called a tRNA comes by. It has attached to it's tip a little amino acid molecule. It attaches itself to the mRNA inside the ribosome (as said earlier, the anticodon attaches to the codon). More and more tRNA come by and do the exact same thing, releasing their amino acid molecules as they go along. Those amino acids come together to form PROTEINS.

anonymous · Answer

This might be more info than you need and I'm sure you already know most of it, but i hope this helped.

anonymous · Answer

A codon is the triplet sequence in the messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript which specifies a corresponding amino acid (or a start or stop command). An anticodon is the corresponding triplet sequence on the transfer RNA (tRNA) which brings in the specific amino acid to the ribosome during translation. The anticodon is complementary to the codon, that is, if the codon is AUU, then the anticodon is UAA. There are no T (Thymine) nitrogen bases in mRNA. It's replaced by U (Uracil).