Question

Protein synthesis is also called the translation process.
What should be translated (translated) in this process?

What happens to gene expression?

Where and on which component of the cell does protein synthesis take place?

Three different RNA molecules participate in protein synthesis. What function in protein synthesis do the three different RNA molecules have?

What is meant by codon and anticodon in protein synthesis, respectively?

Answer 1

In this process, messenger RNA is translated into the sequence of amino acid.

The amino acid sequence so formed, undergoes post translational modification to form a three dimensional native structure of protein. This protein helps in either the stimulation or repression of gene expression.

Protein synthesis takes place on ribosomes in the cytoplasm of cell.

Messenger RNA carries the codon and transfer RNA carries the anticodon. Both of them are kept in association with each other by ribosomal RNA which is present in ribosomes.

Codon is the sequence of three nucleotides carried by messenger RNA. It specify one amino acid and anticodon is also a sequence of three nucleotides carried by transfer RNA. Both codon and anticodon are complementary to each other and lead to the addition of one amino acid in the growing peptide.

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