Codon tables

Okay kiddo, so you know that our body is made up of tiny things called cells. And inside those cells, there are things called genes that tell our body how to work.

Now, the genes are made up of something called DNA, which looks like a really long string of letters. And just like how we use letters to make words, the DNA uses something called bases to make the genes. There are four types of bases in DNA: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T).

But, here's the catch - our body doesn't read the DNA by just looking at it randomly. It uses something called codons.

Codons are like a secret code that our body uses to read the DNA. Each codon is made up of three of the DNA bases, just like how a word is made up of letters. And there's one letter code for each amino acid that proteins are made of.

Now, amino acids are like the building blocks of proteins. Just like how you can build a tower with many small blocks, our body uses many amino acids to make proteins. And each amino acid is coded for by a specific codon.

The codon table is simply a list that tells us which codon codes for which amino acid. Kind of like a cheat sheet that helps our body read the DNA properly. Without the codon table, our body would have a really hard time understanding the DNA and making the right proteins.

So, in summary, codon tables are a list of secret codes that our body uses to read the DNA, understand which amino acids to use, and build proteins that help our body work properly.