Associations to the word «Ribosome»

Wiktionary

RIBOSOME, noun. (biology) Small organelles found in all cells; involved in the production of proteins by translating messenger RNA.

Dictionary definition

RIBOSOME, noun. An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell; "the ribosome is the site of protein synthesis".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope