Further work by Crick and coworkers showed that the genetic code was based on non-overlapping triplets of bases, called codons, allowing Har Gobind Khorana, Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg to decipher the genetic code.

More work by Crick and coworkers showed that the genetic code was based on non-overlapping triplets of bases, called codons.

Genes that encode proteins are composed of a series of three-nucleotide sequences called codons, which serve as the words in the genetic language.

The genetic code is read three nucleotides at a time, in units called codons, via interactions with specialized RNA molecules called transfer RNA (tRNA).

With four DNA bases, there are 64 possible three-letter combinations, called codons, which can specify an amino acid.

Where these triplets equate to amino acids or stop signals during translation, they are called codons.

The code defines how sequences of these nucleotide triplets, called codons, specify which amino acid will be added next during protein synthesis.

Those genes that code for proteins are composed of tri-nucleotide units called codons, each coding for a single amino acid.

Work by Crick and coworkers showed that the genetic code was based on non-overlapping triplets of bases, called codons, and Har Gobind Khorana and others deciphered the genetic code not long afterward (1966).

The ribonucleotides are "read" by translational machinery in a sequence of nucleotide triplets called codons.