TRANSLATION: The protein-making 2;
machinery. called the ribosome, reads
the mRNA sequence and translates it 1
into the amino acid sequence of the r
protein. The ribosome starts at the
sequence AUG, then reads three 1;;
nucleotides at a time. Each 7 7
three—nucleotide codon specifies a
particular amino acid. The "stop" ,
codons (UAA. UAG and UGA) tell the
ribosome that the protein is complete.