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What are the three stop condons

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Hello!

Codons are a set of 3 nucleotides which code for a specific amino acid in mRNA. Stop codons are the ones which, once identified, tell the ribosome to stop making the protein.

There are three of these stop codons, as identified by the question. They are TAA, TAG, and TGA.

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