translation

in biology, the creation of proteins using information from nucleic acids

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Translation is the biological process in which cells read genetic instructions from nucleic acids and use them to build proteins, which are essential molecules that carry out most of the work in living organisms. This process matters because without translation, cells couldn't convert the genetic information stored in DNA and RNA into the actual proteins needed for life to function.

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Overview of eukaryotic messenger RNA translation

Translation is the process in biological cells in which proteins are produced using RNA molecules as templates. The generated protein is a sequence of amino acids determined by the sequence of nucleotides in the RNA. The nucleotides are considered three at a time. Each such triple results in the addition of one specific amino acid to the protein being generated. The matching from nucleotide triple to amino acid is called the genetic code. The translation is performed by a large complex of functional RNA and proteins called ribosomes. The entire process is called gene expression.