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English Dictionary: ribosome by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ribosome
n
  1. an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell; "the ribosome is the site of protein synthesis"
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