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Biology Cheat Sheet: Protein Synthesis Occurs in The Cytoplasm, Outside The Nucleus. DNA Needs A
Biology Cheat Sheet: Protein Synthesis Occurs in The Cytoplasm, Outside The Nucleus. DNA Needs A
FYI poly means many (e.g. polynucleotide = many nucleotides, polypeptide = many peptides)
As RNA Polymer reaches the 5’ end of the strand (the termination sequence) it detaches
from the mRNA molecule from the template strand.
mRNA then leaves the nucleus through nuclear pores & enters the cytoplasm
Translation
Occurs in the cytoplasm
Proteins are a chain of amino acids & are synthesised using the mRNA code as a template
Amino acids are attached to one end of the tRNA molecule (you don’t need to know how
at this level) with the anti-codon on the other side. Each tRNA has a specific type of
amino acid it can attach too