Question

Why does it make sense to use the word translation to describe protein synthesis anf why it would not make sense to use the word translation to describe mrna synthesis

Answer 1

"Translation", means to render something into a different form. This word is commonly used because RNA is using the code on the mRNA to make protein. It's like amino acids are like letters of a protein language, every 3 codons of the RNA are the letters of the RNA language.