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  VetBooks.ir    (A) TRANSCRIPTION


                    RNA  DNA
                 polymerase                 Nuclear
                                            membrane            Completed
                                mRNA                            peptide
                                processing




                                                          (C) TERMINATION





                              Attachment
                              of ribosomal
                               subunits









                                               Growing peptide chain
                                                                          Amino acid


                 Outgoing
                   empty
                   tRNA


                                                                        Incoming tRNA
                                                                A
                                             tRNA     tRNA        T     bound to an
                               G                                     G
                              A                                         amino acid
                                           C  T  C  G  G  C
                                A  A  T  C  G  A  G  C  C  G  T  A  C  T  C  mRNA
                                                                            strand

                                  Ribosome

                                           (B) TRANSLATION

          Figure 2-24.  Protein synthesis. (A) Transcription results in processed mRNA that exits nucleus.
          (B) Translation of the mRNA produces a peptide chain. (C) The completed peptide is released.


          joined in the new individual. Recombinant   DNA in their genome. Retroviruses are a
          DNA has also been transferred into      specific group of viruses that insert their
          embryos by infecting early‐stage embryos   own genetic material into  the genome of
          with retroviruses containing recombinant   organisms they infect. As they insert their
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