Protein synthesis

• what are the stages of protein synthesis?

  • transcription
  • translation
• what is transcription?

  a segment of DNA acts as a template to direct the synthesis of a complimentary sequence of RNA, with the enzyme RNA polymerase
• what is translation?

  the sequence of codons on the mRNA is used to assemble a specific sequence of amino acids into a polypeptide chain, at the ribosomes
• where does transcription occur?

  in the nucleus
• where does translation occur?

  on the ribosomes in the cytoplasm