Protein synthesis is one of the most fundamental biological processes by which individual cells build their specific proteins. Involved within the process are both DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and, different in their function, ribonucleic acids (RNA).

   The process is initiated in the cell’s nucleus, where specific enzymes unwind the needed section of DNA, which makes the DNA in this region accessible and a RNA copy can be made. This RNA molecule then moves from the nucleus to the cell cytoplasm, where the actual the process of protein synthesis take place.