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Ribosomes are sites of which reaction?


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Ribosomes:

  1. RNA and related proteins make up ribosomes, which are present in enormous quantities in the cytoplasm of live cells.
  2. To produce polypeptides and proteins, they bind messenger RNA and transport it.

The function of ribosomes:

  1. The important function of ribosomes is to synthesize proteins.
  2. The process of production of proteins from mRNA (messenger RNA) is called translation.

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