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translation

translation

3 7.0
Making proteins in cells using instructions from messenger RNA
  • noun
  • /trænˈsleɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : traducción
  • A seasoned survey veteran such as O'Sullivan would have been intimately familiar with the facts of this translation process.
  • mRNA translation
  • translation into protein
  • translation process

You're in the same language with RNA transcription from DNA translation is different.

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Examples

  • Proper translation of mRNA is essential for producing the correct proteins needed for cellular functions.

  • After correct transcription and translation, target proteins are produced to exert biological effects.

    Academic text (2018)
  • And so the DNA needs to be opened up in certain points to be read to have an appropriate translation into proteins.

  • mRNA is the material that codes for translation to proteins.

  • But as far as I'm aware, all eukaryotes start translation with methionine.

  • During the process of translation, the ribosome assembles amino acids to form a protein.

  • In cells, translation occurs when messenger RNA provides the template for synthesizing proteins.

Compounds

machine translation
  • Specialized
1 3.5

A computer program that changes text or speech from one language into another

A wrong or funny use of English on signs and labels

loan translation
  • Specialized
8.1

A word or phrase made by changing each part of a foreign phrase to keep its meaning

Surface Forms

translation singular
translations plural

Morphology

translation = translate (opaque) = translate + ion

Although morphologically a nominalization, the molecular-biology sense ('protein synthesis from mRNA') is a specialized technical term whose meaning is not inferable from the everyday verb 'translate' for most learners.

Etymology

Translation comes from Latin parts trans- 'across' and a root meaning 'to carry', as in transfer. In biology, translation is the process of 'carrying' the message in mRNA 'across' into a chain of amino acids, so the origin explains how information becomes a protein.