ribosome
pronunciation
How to pronounce ribosome in British English:
UK ['raɪbəsəʊm]
How to pronounce ribosome in American English:
US ['raɪbəsoʊm]
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- Noun:
- an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; ribosomes attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when a ribosome reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein mole
Word Origin
- ribosome (n.)
- 1958, coined by U.S. microbiologist Richard B. Roberts (1910-1980) from ribo(nucleic acid) + -some "body."
Example
- 1. I know a great shortcut to get our mirror ribosome !
- 2. Just type the protein databank id number for the ribosome that you want to look at , and then start exploring .
- 3. The ribosome is the site of protein synthesis .
- 4. There were abundant mitochondria , rough surfaced endoplasmic reticulum and ribosome .
- 5. Another nucleic acid , rna , carries the information to a molecular machine called a ribosome , which reads the rna and strings together amino acids to form the protein .