{"id":8976,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ribosomes\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:33","slug":"ribosomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ribosomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribosomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These small organelles form the machinery of the cell that makes synthesises protein, and are located on the &#8216;rough&#8217; endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells. &nbsp;They consist of proteins and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and receive messenger RNA (mRNA) copied from DNA, as well as amino acids. &nbsp;They translate the mRNA through using its coded instructions to assemble amino acids in a particular order. &nbsp;In doing so, they make a strand of a particular protein.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"amino_acids\">Amino acids<\/a>, <a href=\"cytoskeleton\">Cytoskeleton<\/a>, DNA, <a href=\"endoplasmic_reticulum_-er-\">Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)<\/a>, <a href=\"eukaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Eukaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, <a href=\"nissl_substance\">Nissl substance<\/a>, <a href=\"organelles\">Organelles<\/a>, <a href=\"rna_-ribonucleic_acid-\">RNA (ribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"translation_-genetics-\">Translation (genetics)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These small organelles form the machinery of the cell that makes synthesises protein, and are located on the &#8216;rough&#8217; endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells. &nbsp;They consist of proteins and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and receive messenger RNA (mRNA) copied from DNA, as well as amino acids. &nbsp;They translate the mRNA through using its coded instructions to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ribosomes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ribosomes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}