In biology, alternative name for protein biosynthesis. The term translation emphasizes the aspect that the genetic information encoded as a sequence of nucleotides in DNA and in messenger RNA is translated into a sequence of amino acids in a peptide chain, according to the rules of the genetic code. See also transcription.
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