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What is a genetic code?

What is a genetic code? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) the set of rules by which the sequence of bases in DNA are translated into the amino acid sequence of proteins
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Its genetic code is embedded in a complex DNA structure called the TCP pathogenicity island.
The quest for humanity's genetic genealogy began in the early 1980s, when researchers were just starting to decipher the genetic code.
The genetic code of the Roboastra mitochondrial genome is the same as that used by other mollusks.
Clark works with genetic information, creating DNA portraits in which people are represented by their genetic code.
Starting at one end of the gene, the genetic code is read three nucleotides at a time.
Because of some unknown quirk or mutation in the cosmic dance her genetic code did not enable her cells to make a full life possible.

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