Click on the picture below to view a very simple explanation of how mRNA collects amino acids to manufacture proteins as the mRNA passes through the ribosome (the protein making factory). It is at this stage when slippage of the mRNA may occur (frame-shifting) to produce a ‘foreign protein’.
To explain how frame-shifting works in a simple manner, I will…
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