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Messenger


A messenger interprets the external signals and transfers them to the cell, example, when a hormone arrives at a receptor, a messenger is activated (cAMP) and this tells the cell that something needs to be done.
The messenger RNA is an important factor in the synthesis of proteins.

View Dr Chromo's lecture on 'Translation of RNA into proteins '.


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