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What Is Translation?

The process of converting the coded information on the messenger RNA to a protein is
called translation.
nucleus

The mRNA travels through a cytoplasm
nuclear pore to the cytoplasm
and attaches to a ribosome. nuclear
pores

mRNA
cytoplasm

The ribosome moves along the
mRNA strand, translating the
code.
ribosome

Three sequential mRNA
bases form a triplet code for
a particular amino acid. Each
A U A U U U C G C G A A G C U A G U A U U U C
triplet is called a codon.

mRNA
codon

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