ribosomBahasa Indonesia

ribosome

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An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell, they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid, when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell

English: ribosome

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