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Reading frame
In
molecular biology
, a
reading frame
is a way of dividing the
sequence of nucleotides
in a
nucleic acid
(
DNA
or
RNA
) molecule into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets. Where these triplets equate to
amino acids
or stop signals during
translation
, they are called
codons
.
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