PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
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Question
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Which statement correctly describes translation?
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Translation controls gene expression in cells.
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Translation occurs in eukaryotes but not prokaryotes.
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Translation transfers information from DNA to RNA.
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Translation produces a polypeptide using information in mRNA.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Translation takes place on ribosomes in the cell cytoplasm, where mRNA is read and translated into the string of amino acid chains that make up the synthesized protein.
Detailed explanation-2: -The role of mRNA is to carry protein information from the DNA in a cell’s nucleus to the cell’s cytoplasm (watery interior), where the protein-making machinery reads the mRNA sequence and translates each three-base codon into its corresponding amino acid in a growing protein chain.
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