Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305389892
Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Translation is the process in which the nucleotide sequence in mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) is read as a genetic code for an amino acid. This produces the polypeptide chain with a certain sequence of amino acids. The mRNA attaches to the ribosome and the tRNA (transfer RNA) brings the amino acids to the ribosome.

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