a: Polysome ~
b: a cafeteria line
What:
"A polysome is like a cafeteria line, in which patrons follow one another, adding items to their trays. At any moment, the person at the start has a little food (a newly initiated protein); the person at the end has a complete meal (a completed protein). However, in the polysome cafeteria, everyone gets the same meal: Many copies of the same protein are made from a single mRNA."
Useful?
Writer: William K. Purves, David Sadava, Gordon H. Orians
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Date: Feb 22 2014 9:03 PM
# 5043 Critique Analogy