to translate
- verb
- /trænˈsleɪt/
- Specialized
- In the ribosome, the mRNA is translated into a sequence of amino acids to form a protein.
- translate into protein
The ribosome is this massive factory that is able to translate RNA into protein.
- The ribosome is this massive factory that is able to translate RNA into protein.
- You know, in, in, in this case, it was, you know, how is the code translated into proteins?
- That mRNA gets translated by a ribosome into a polypeptide chain or a protein.
- It needs to be converted or translated into the protein that will become the actual functional unit.
- DNA is transcribed into RNARNA is translated into proteins.
- And those ribosomes are the, are the place in which the RNA is, is translated into protein.
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For coding regions, transcription results in a complementary mRNA molecule that, with no further modification, is translated at the ribosome.
Academic text (1996) -
So the RNA is translated into protein.
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The ribosome is this massive factory that is able to translate RNA into protein.
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It needs to be converted or translated into the protein that will become the actual functional unit.
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Then, the mRNA is transported out to the cytosol to be translated into the corresponding protein.
Academic text (2018) -
Genes in DNA are expressed when they're read and transcribed into RNA, which is translated into proteins by structures called ribosomes.
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During protein synthesis, the information in mRNA is translated into the corresponding protein structure.
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When the cell needs a protein, it translates the mRNA code to assemble amino acids into a polypeptide chain.
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Etymology
Translate comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and latus 'carried'. In biology the word describes how a cell 'carries' the message in mRNA 'across' into a chain of amino acids, so the code becomes a real protein.