Introductory Microbiology

Translation

Translation is the process in which the information in the nucleotide base sequence of mRNA is used to dictate the amino acid sequence of a protein. The mRNA associates with ribosomes, which consist of rRNA and protein.



Protein synthesis - Translation

Bacterial genome organization
DNA molecules that replicate as discrete genetic units in bacteria are called replicons. In some Escherichia coli strains the chromosome is the only replicon present in the cell. Other bacterial strains have additional replicons, such as plasmids and bacteriophages.
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