Translation

• Translation:

  1. mRNA attaches to a ribosome and transfer RNA collects amino acids from the cytoplasm and carries them to the ribosome. tRNA is a single stranded molecule with a binding site at one end thus it can only carry one type of amino acid, and a triplet of bases at the other
• Translation:

  2) tRNA attaches itself to mRNA by complementary base pairing – two molecules attach to mRNA at a time

  3) The amino acids attached to two tRNA molecules join by a peptide bond and then tRNA molecules detach themselves from the amino acids, leaving them behind

  4) This process is repeated thus leading to the formation of a polypeptide chain until a stop codon is reached on mRNA and ends the process of protein synthesis