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GCSE Biology · key term
The process in which cells join amino acids in an order specified by genetic information to produce a protein.
Used by AQA and OCR
Specification 4.6.1.5 · Paper 2
The process in which cells join amino acids in an order specified by genetic instructions to make a protein.
Revise: Protein Synthesis (Higher Tier)Carrier molecules bring specific amino acids to the ribosome, which joins them in the order specified by the template. This joining of amino acids is protein synthesis.
Specification B1.2d · Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher)
The cellular process in which information from a gene is used to assemble amino acids into a protein.
Revise: Protein synthesisProtein synthesis has two main stages: transcription, which makes this copy, and translation, which uses the copy to assemble a protein.
Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)
Revise: Protein SynthesisA ribosome is the site of protein synthesis. The mRNA therefore brings the order encoded by the gene to the place where the protein will be assembled.
AQA requires a simple account of protein synthesis, not the structures of mRNA or tRNA or detailed protein chemistry.
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