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Endosymbiotic theory explains the origin of eukaryotic cells. Eukaryotes (cells that contain membrane bound organelle) are believed to have evolved from prokaryotic cells (unicellular organism that lacks ...

Translation involves three main steps; initiation, elongation and termination.Initiation begins when a mRNA (messenger RNA) binds to the small of the sub unit of the ribosome, where it moves to the start ...

Protein synthesis is the process in which proteins are produced within cells, from the DNA in the cell nucleus. It is divided into two steps: transcription and translation.
Transcription is when the ...

Chlorophyll is a pigment molecule produced by plants that they use to absorb light energy (photons), which is needed for the light dependent section of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis makes glucose, the en...

After the cell has carried out the process of DNA transcription, we are left with a transcribed mRNA fragment. This, similar to DNA, is a chain of 4 different bases - cytosine, guanine, adenine and uracil...