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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin