Coding strand

The 'coding strand' (also known as the non-template strand) is the DNA strand that has the same base sequence as the RNA transcript and carries the codons for a particular sequence of amino acids in the polypeptide chain.

References

Bertoni et al., 2012: p.650

Bibliography

Bertoni, G., Hardin, J. and Kleinsmith, L. J., 2012. Becker’s world of the cell. 8th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummins