Use Maltese in a sentence. 1  of Malta or its people, language, or culture. 2  of the medieval Knights of Malta. 3  pl. -Â·teseâ² a person born or living in Malta.  the Semitic language spoken in Malta, closely related to Arabic, strongly influenced by Italian, and written in the Latin 1  alphabet.  pl.
Ribosomes consist of two subunits that, in prokaryotes, sediment as 50S and 30S particles and associate to form a 70S particle, as seen in Figure 10-30a. The eukaryotic counterparts are 60S and 40S for the large and small subunits, and 80S for the complete ribosome (Figure 10-30b).
You might recall that a ribosome is a cell organelle that helps in assembling chains of amino acids. It's made of ribosomal RNA, or rRNA, and protein. Ribosomes are located on the rough endoplasmic reticulum, or RER, that surrounds a cell's nucleus. In fact, ribosomes are the reason that the RER is called rough; they give the endoplasmic reticulum a rough appearance when viewed under a microscope.