Aminoacylation Attachment of an amino acid to its cognate (matching) transfer RNA (tRNA), catalyzed by the cognate aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS).
Anticodon The trinucleotide sequence at the end of one arm of tRNA that base pairs with a complementary messenger RNA (mRNA) codon.
Codon The trinucleotide sequence of an mRNA that specifies which amino acid will be inserted into a protein.
Genetic code The set of rules that specify codon-amino acid correspondence.
Translation Synthesis of a protein according to its mRNA sequence.
Watson-Crick base pair Hydrogen bond partners in RNA or DNA. Adenine is the Watson-Crick partner to uracil (or thymine in DNA); guanine pairs with cytosine.
