Because of this flexibility, the 30 to 40 tRNAs present in a cell can "read" all 61 codons in mRNA. The opposite end of the folded structure, which is the 3' end of the tRNA, binds to its ...

The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But where does translation take place within a cell?