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This course is 14 pages from Chapter 15 of Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, Third Edition. The chapter is titled "Translation: Synthesis of Proteins." This course is considered advanced for medical technicians and intermediate for medical technologists.

Subjects covered include: a discussion of codons; mutations that cause disease; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; how protein translation is terminated; a comparison of protein synthesis in prokaryotes versus eukaryotes; posttranslational modifications and their metabolic effects; how protein is synthesized in the rough endoplasmic reticulum; and the effects of antibiotics on target  bacteia and on the patient.

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