The Genetic Code
Sixty-four triplets, twenty amino acids and one stop signal — the lookup table every cell on Earth shares. Click any codon for its amino acid and a memory hook for that stubbornly arbitrary one-letter code.
| 1st | U | C | A | G | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U | U | ||||
| C | |||||
| A | |||||
| G | |||||
| C | U | ||||
| C | |||||
| A | |||||
| G | |||||
| A | U | ||||
| C | |||||
| A | |||||
| G | |||||
| G | U | ||||
| C | |||||
| A | |||||
| G |
NonpolarPolarAcidicBasicAromaticStop
AUGM
Methionine Met
Class: NonpolarThird base: same result for 1 of the 4 third bases★ START codon
🧬 Memory hook
Methionine — M for Methionine and for the M-start: AUG is the Master switch every protein begins with.