Specialization of Kaon Quarks: A Deeper Understanding

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A kaon is a type of quark right? Is a way of thinking about it similar to the way a cell becomes specialized: a Kaon would be like a specialized quark?
 
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A kaon is a meson (quark-antiquark pair) that contains a strange quark and either an up or a down quark.
i.e.
K^- = (\bar{u}s)
K^+ = (u\bar{s})
\bar{K}^0 = (\bar{d}s)
K^0 = (d\bar{s})
 
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