Biochemistry
Biochemistry
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Author: Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Gregory J. Gatto Jr., Lubert Stryer
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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The reason should be determined for knowing protein synthesis as translation.

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Protein synthesis (translation) is a process of generating new protein sequences inside the cell. This process takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell. This process is balanced by the degradation or export of cellular proteins. It is constituted of three steps, initiation, elongation, and termination.

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Answer to Problem 1P

Protein synthesis is termed as translation because translation means conversion from one language to another language.

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During protein synthesis, nucleic acids of the RNA chain are decoded to amino acids to form a protein sequence or in protein synthesis, the conversion of nucleic acid sequence information to amino acid sequence information occurs. This is the same as the translation process, in which information is converted from one language to another language word by word.

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Protein synthesis is termed as translation because translation means conversion from one language to another language.

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