Description
Translation is the final step in creating a new protein. In the translation phase, the protein is built based on the information contained by the RNA strand created in the prior phase (transcription). Short sequences of three nucleotides (“genetic letters”) on the RNA strand encode one specific amino acid. The order of this three-letter sequences describes the arrangement of amino acids in the protein. The factories of the cell (ribosomes) use this information to create chains of amino acids which later fold to create the final protein. In a nutshell, we could say that RNA language (nucleotides) is translated into protein language (amino acids).