ribosomes
What ribosomes means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: OCR
The mRNA binds to this structure in the cytoplasm during translation, where tRNA molecules align complementary anticodons to mRNA codons.
Carry out translation to assemble polypeptides and are the site of protein synthesis in the cytoplasm.
The site of protein synthesis in the cell, where proteins are synthesised according to a template.
Site of protein synthesis; present in animal, plant and bacterial cells.
Topics that use ribosomes
- DNA structure (biology only) (AQA GCSE)
- Cell structures (OCR GCSE)
- What happens in cells (and what do cells need)? (OCR GCSE)
- Topic 1 – Key concepts in biology (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Amino acid sequence
- Complementary base pairing
- double helix
- Mitochondria
- polymer
- protein folding
- sugar-phosphate backbone
- transcription
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