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Question 23

In biotechnology, synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) coding for spider silk protein (spidroin) is introduced into the cytoplasm of engineered yeast cells to produce high-tensile silk fibers.

Describe how the yeast cell's ribosomes translate this mRNA to synthesise the spider silk protein.

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