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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
"word": "密碼子"
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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"code": "fi",
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"masculine"
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"word": "codon"
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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"word": "Codon"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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{
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
"word": "ក្រមាណូ"
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "sequence of three nucleotides",
"tags": [
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