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Understanding Cancer Series: Cancer Genome Project
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    Posted: 01/28/2005    Reviewed: 09/01/2006
Slide 8  :  Gene to mRNA to Protein

mRNA travels from the nucleus into the cytoplasm to cell organelles called ribosomes. There it directs the assembly of amino acids that fold into a unique protein.

Gene to mRNA to Protein