(disclaimer - I'm just getting interested in genetics so sorry if this is an obvious/silly question.)
From wikipedia, in the section on the RNA codon table, I see a mapping between codons and amino ...

Before anything else please pay attention of the double quotes on the "equal" in the title - I know they are not equal, but you will understand in a bit.
If I look at the DNA codon table here or in ...

Binding of adrenaline (epinephrine) to the β-Adrenergic receptor leads to formation of cAMP (via G protein activation), activation of protein kinase A and subsequently to the expression of specific ...

Since DNA is double stranded and each strand is complementary to the other, the codons on each strand will come out to be different after transcription(depending on the reading frame). Does this mean ...

What is the mechanism?
In other words, how does the tRNA know whether the codon is in 5' to 3' direction? I also heard that anything that is translated from 3' to 5' direction is degraded. Is it true? ...

I'm doing my High School biology final on Progeria, and am wondering what type of mutation causes this disease.
I know that the LMNA gene codes for the "prelamin A" protein, and that protein contains ...

After looking at this question, some other questions poped in my mind.
The DNA code is redundant, there are 20 amino acids for 64 possible nucleotide combinations. Therefore some amino acid are coded ...

When I express proteins in bacteria I put at least two stop codons at the end of the gene to increase the termination efficiency. Is this the case in eukaryotic cells too? If I put a single stop codon ...

I get conflicting answers. One would think if it was true, it would be rather seminal and widely known.
There are papers from Khorana[1], Holland[2], and Bretscher[3] (late 60s) that suggest that it ...

Today I heard about a phenomenon called "translational coupling", where the translation of one protein influences the translation of another protein. The messenger RNA levels don't seem influenced. ...

I'm taking a molecular genetics course, and we're currently discussing prokaryotic operons. The lacZ operon came up frequently for me as an undergraduate as an example for teaching regulatory control ...