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Essential amino acids are encoded by specific genetic codons.
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Standard molecular biology reference texts establish that amino acids are incorporated into proteins via translation from mRNA, where specific nucleotide triplets (codons) encode specific amino acids.

Evidence for · 6
Wikipedia: Genetic code
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Wikipedia: Proteinogenic amino acid
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Mcgraw-Hill Education: Harper's illustrated biochemistry
2015 · cited by 0
Notes that the genetic code specifies amino acids.
McGraw-Hill: Case files. Biochemistry
2008 · cited by 0
States that amino acids are encoded by codons in the genetic code.
McGraw-Hill: Schaum's outline of theory and problems of molecular and cell biology
1996 · cited by 0
Explains mRNA codons and the specific amino acids they specify.
McGraw-Hill Medical: Harper's illustrated biochemistry
2012 · cited by 0
Mentions that amino acids are specified by the genetic code.
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  1. Wikipedia: Essential amino acidreferencesame source L1no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Wikipedia: Genetic codereferencesame source L1supports
  3. Wikipedia: Proteinogenic amino acidreferencesame source L1supports
  4. Wiley-Liss: Biochemistry : a short coursereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Mcgraw-Hill Education: Harper's illustrated biochemistryreferencesupports
  6. VCH: Molecular biology and biotechnology : a comprehensive desk referencereferencesame source L4no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. VCH: Molecular biology and biotechnology : a comprehensive desk referencereferencesame source L4no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Addison-Wesley: Biochemistry : molecules, cells, and the bodyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. McGraw-Hill: Case files. Biochemistryreferencesame source L6supports
  10. McGraw-Hill: Schaum's outline of theory and problems of molecular and cell biologyreferencesame source L6supports
  11. McGraw-Hill Medical: Harper's illustrated biochemistryreferencesupports
  12. Wikisource: Copyright Office letter affirming refusal to register the "Prancer DNA Sequence"referencesame source L8no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Wikisource: Brain Sciences/Volume 10/Issue 11/Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy in Childhood: Think of the Cerebral Folate Deficiency, a Treatable Diseasereferencesame source L8no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Aquaculture and Fisheries: The isolation and functional identification of a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene from Saccharina japonicapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. Biology Open: In vivo mapping of the functional regions of the DEAD-box helicase Vasapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports: L-Cysteine supplementation prevents liver transplantation in a patient with TRMU deficiencypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: The 2b Protein of Cucumoviruses Has a Role in Promoting the Cell-to-cell Movement of Pseudorecombinant Virusespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine: Developmental Angiogenesis Requires the Mitochondrial Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetasepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. Plants: The Small Auxin-Up RNA 50 (SAUR50) Gene from Ammopiptanthus nanus Negatively Regulates Drought Tolerancepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. OpenAIRE: Regulation of Global and Specific mRNA Translation by Amino Acidspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OpenAIRE: Transactivation of a human cytomegalovirus early promoter by gene products from the immediate-early gene IE2 and augmentation by IE1: mutational analysis of the viral proteinspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OpenAIRE: Mutagenesis of the BC1 and BV1 genes of African cassava mosaic virus identifies conserved amino acids that are essential for spreadpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. OpenAIRE: Optical Control of Protein Functions via Genetically Encoded Photocaged Aspartic Acidspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  24. OpenAIRE: TF1, the bacteriophage SPO1-encoded type II DNA-binding protein, is essential for viral multiplicationpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  25. OpenAIRE: Specific Locations of Hydrophilic Amino Acids in Constructed Transmembrane Ligands of the Platelet-Derived Growth Factor β Receptorpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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