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Translation

Process by which the ribosome converts the messenger RNA sequence into a chain of amino acids.

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Translation

Process by which the ribosome converts the messenger RNA sequence into a chain of amino acids.

It is the cellular process by which the nucleotide sequence of a messenger RNA is converted into the amino acid sequence of a protein, through the reading of codons by the ribosome with the help of transfer RNAs.

Together with replication and transcription, it forms the three fundamental processes of the central dogma of molecular biology formulated by Francis Crick in 1958. It follows a genetic code that is nearly universal across the three domains of life, which allows, for example, a bacterium to translate a human gene.

The video presents translation as the last of the three processes on which the central dogma rests, and explains that it begins when the messenger RNA binds to the small subunit of the ribosome. It also notes that without ribosomes there is no translation, and without translation there are no proteins or cells, and it closes the tour of the dogma stating that with translation the cycle of genetic information is completed.

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