For about a century, studies in the realm of molecular biology elucidated the structure and relationships of DNA and its blueprint for protein synthesis. Within the past 50 years, numerous investigators have revealed the transcription process from which DNA yields messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA can be considered the working copy of the blueprint. The construction site of this process is the ribosome. In plants and animals, ribosomes are free within the cytoplasm or attached on the endoplasmic reticu…

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