Translation

Question 0

What must happen before translation can occur?

Answer 0

Transcription

Question 1

What is translation?

Answer 1

The process of converting or translating the information in a sequence of nitrogen bases in mRNA into a sequence of amino acids that make up proteins.

Question 2

What are the three types of RNA

Answer 2

mRNA
rRNA
tRNA

Question 3

What is the first step of translation?

Answer 3

Initiation

mRNA attaches to the ribosome (rRNA) rRNA reads the mRNA in groups of three nucleotides called a codon

Question 4

How many amino acids are there?

Answer 4

20 different amino acids and 64 different codons

Question 5

What is the second step of translation?

Answer 5

Elongation
tRNA carries a specific amino acid determined by the anticodon to the ribosome. The anticodon of tRNA pairs with the complementary codon on mRNA.
The tRNA are recycled back to pick up more amino acids

Question 6

What kind of bonds are formed between amino acids

Answer 6

Peptide bonds and in elongation, they link amino acids to proteins

Question 7

What is the third step of translation?

Answer 7

Termination

The protein is released from the ribosome when a stop codon is reached