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Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

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Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits: DNA

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Translation is the process by which cells make proteins using the instructions carried by messenger RNA (mRNA). It takes place in the cytoplasm on ribosomes, where the genetic code is read three bases at a time, called codons. Each codon corresponds to a specific ami...

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Translation is the process where the ribosome reads the mRNA code and builds a protein in the cytoplasm after transcription.

The ribosome follows the instructions carried by mRNA to build a protein. You can think of the ribosome as the chef and the mRNA as the recipe written in a special code of A, U, G, and C.

The ribosome reads the...

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