Anticodon

/ˈæn.ti.koʊ.dɑn/ noun

A three-unit sequence on transfer RNA that pairs with a corresponding codon on messenger RNA during protein synthesis.

From 'anti-' (opposite) + 'codon' (genetic code sequence). Molecular biology term coined in the 1960s when the genetic code was being deciphered.

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