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What is the role of the rough endoplasmic reticulum in a eukaryotic cell?

Site of protein synthesis. RNA is transcribed in the nucleus and travels to the ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum (which are located in the cell cytoplasm) for translation/protein synthesis.

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