Protein Synthesis (Extended Study)

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• Enzymes open up the DNA at the site of the gene where the mRNA will be formed.

• The DNA code is transcribed onto a complimentary mRNA strand.

• mRNA enters a small subunit of a ribosome in the cytoplasm.

• Every tRNA has a complementary triplet to the triplets on the mRNA.

• tRNA molecules enter the large subunit of the ribosome.

• Every triplet of nucleotides on the tRNA corresponds to a specific amino acid.

• The amino acids are attached to each other at the ribosome to form the protein.

mRNA: Messenger RNA, formed when the enzyme RNA polymerase joins the RNA bases to form messenger RNA.

tRNA: Transfer RNA, found in the cytoplasm.

Binding site: The combination of the codon and the anticodon. write my paper