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The Universal Genetic Code & Wobble Decoding

Interactive 3D codon wheel: pick any of the 64 mRNA codons that make up the universal genetic code shared by all life, see which amino acid it encodes, how many synonymous codons share that meaning, and which wobble-paired tRNA anticodons can read it.

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All known cellular life — bacteria, plants, animals, archaea — reads the same 64-codon table to translate mRNA into protein, one of the strongest pieces of evidence for a single Last Universal Common Ancestor. This simulator renders that table as a real 3D codon wheel (ring = 1st base, sector = 2nd base, leaf = 3rd base among 64 InstancedMesh nodes), colored by the amino acid's biochemical class. Pick any codon with the base buttons and watch it highlight, read off the amino acid, its synonymous-codon count and GC content, and see exactly which tRNA anticodon wobble bases the wobble hypothesis says can still pair with its 3rd position — the real mechanism that makes the genetic code redundant instead of needing 64 different tRNAs.

⚙ Under the hood

Explore the 64-codon table shared by all life as an interactive 3D codon wheel: pick any mRNA codon, see the amino acid it encodes, its synonymous-codon count, and which tRNA anticodon wobble bases can still pair with it under Crick's wobble hypothesis.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install