Hence, the resulting products provided clues that the researchers could use to deduce potential codon–amino acid relationships. For example, when A and C were mixed with polynucleotide ...

Following this discovery, Nirenberg, Philip Leder, and Gobind Khorana identified the rest of the genetic code and fully described each three-letter codon and its corresponding amino acid.

The mRNA then travels to the ribosome, where translation occurs. Here's how anticodons facilitate the translation process: The specificity of the anticodon-codon interaction ensures that the correct ...