Assertion: codon | /r/HasProperty | biochemistry
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text: As nouns the difference between gene and codon is that gene is (genetics) a unit of heredity; a segment of dna or rna that is transmitted from one generation to the next, and that carries genetic information such as the sequence of amino acids for a protein while codon is (biochemistry) a sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.