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13.2 Ribosomes and Protein Synthesis
Vocabulary for 13.2 Ribosomes and Protein Synthesis
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Biology
9th Grade
03/26/2015
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Anticodon is a group of three bases on a tRNA molecule that are complementary to the three bases of a codon of mRNA.
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Codon is a group of three nucleotide bases in mRNA that specify a particular amino acid to be incorporated into a protein.
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Gene expression is the process by which a gene produces its product and the product carries out its function.
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Genetic code is the collection of codons of mRNA, each of which directs the incorporation of a particular amino acid into a protein during protein synthesis.
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Polypeptide is a long chain of amino acids that makes proteins.
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Translation is the process by which the sequence of bases of an mRNA is converted into the sequence of amino acids of a protein.
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