what are the two basic steps of polypeptide synthesis?
Now that weâve described DNA and RNA, itâs time to take a look at the process of protein synthesis. The synthesis of proteins takes two steps: transcription and translation. Transcription takes the information encoded in DNA and encodes it into mRNA, which heads out of the cellâs nucleus and into the cytoplasm. During translation, the mRNA works with a ribosome and tRNA to synthesize proteins.