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Three Early Advances in
      Understanding Protein Synthesis

• Proteins synthesized at ribosomes.

• Amino acids activated for synthesis by attachment to
   tRNA via aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

• tRNA acts as an “adapter” to translate mRNA into
   protein

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