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stop codon

a codon that marks the end of a sequence
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stop codon

Summary

stop codon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • stop codon's subclass of is recorded as codon[2].
  • stop codon's subclass of is recorded as terminator[3].
  • stop codon's part of is recorded as open reading frame[4].
  • stop codon's Commons category is recorded as Stop codon[5].
  • stop codon's opposite of is recorded as start codon[6].
  • stop codon's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018388[7].
  • stop codon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vk52k[8].
  • stop codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as D13.444.735.544.355.250[9].
  • stop codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.335.355.250[10].
  • stop codon's MeSH tree code is recorded as G05.360.340.024.340.137.190.250[11].
  • stop codon's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0224873[12].
  • stop codon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/stop-codon[13].
  • stop codon's has characteristic is recorded as last[14].
  • stop codon's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0242611[15].
  • stop codon's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as stop-codon[16].
  • stop codon's Sequence Ontology ID is recorded as SO:0000319[17].
  • stop codon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 20580545[18].
  • stop codon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2908657702[19].
  • stop codon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2911201103[20].
  • stop codon's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C20580545[21].
  • stop codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as agricultural-and-biological-sciences/stop-codon[22].
  • stop codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as neuroscience/stop-codon[23].
  • stop codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as medicine-and-dentistry/stop-codon[24].
  • stop codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as immunology-and-microbiology/stop-codon[25].
  • stop codon's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/stop-codon[26].

Why It Matters

stop codon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). stop codon. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/stop-codon
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_stop-codon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{stop codon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/stop-codon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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