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Protein synthesis is an important part of human survival. It can be broken up into two area:

Transcription (click here)

Transcription is the first stage to gene expression. mRNA is synthesised and is complementary to the sequence of one strand of the DNA. mRNA acts as a messenger, carrying the information from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.



Translation (click here)

Translation is the second step in protein synthesis. Ribosomes read the mRNA and the appropriate amino acids are found. This forms a functional protein.


Quiz (click here)

Once you have studied the above material take a short test


Protein modification (click here)

Protein modification occurs after the protein has be created.

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