ribosome in white and cyan
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This image shows a ribosome, shown in white and cyan, controlling a red package of transfer RNA, which deposits an amino acid building block onto the yellow protein being created. The ribosome chooses the appropriate amino acid based on information stored in the green strand of RNA.
October 21, 2005 5:47 PM PDT
Photo by: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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