[03.29.2025] Updated content, AnKing-MCAT/AnKingMed, ID 3167712

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Suggestion appears correct to me. Not sure if we need to list all the different names. I recall a question specifically about the amber codon so maybe it is worth clarifying that UAG is also referred to as the amber codon rather than listing the stone names for all.

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Please let me know if you have any other questions. :slight_smile:

Any mention of this in UWorld books? I dont see it in Kaplan or Khan academy. Unfortunately we have this AAMC question and rationale which supports the current wording despite contradicting pretty much every other source I see online which verify this suggestion lol.

Nothing. The UWorld textbook doesn’t have any mention of the word ‘amber’ at all, sadly

That’s an oddball. The usage of the term isn’t related to part of the passage?

No it’s stand alone but it at least gives the example of TAG so you know it is one of the stop codons. The weird part is that the question says “for example, TAG” implying there is more than one amber codon but multiple sources online suggest that the term amber codon specifically refers to TAG/UAG aligning with this suggestion.

For sure we don’t need the other stuff in the suggestion: ochre, opal, etc.

Also maybe worth pointing out that, in the vast majority of cases, stop codons are given via their mRNA code rather than, in this case, what seems to be an exception in that they’re seemingly giving the coding sequence (so it’s still UAG, via mRNA).

I dunno how to squeeze this in, given this one weird, seemingly one-off, example. Other than that the Extra section already notes that “stop codons are also called amber codons.”

I take main issue with the ordering of the extra section. In the AAMC example it’s an amber codon is a stop codon. In our extra its stop codons are also called amber codons implying all stop codons are also called amber codons.

Can we maybe do:

The stop codon UAG is also referred to as an amber codon ?

Ah, I see what you’re saying. Yeah, I think that makes sense

Should probably push that as a separate suggestion, I think, just to keep things clear. But for sure it makes sense to distinguish between the heavy-handed claim that all X are Y, etc., etc., and be more judicious there in what we’re saying. That’s a good call

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