gamma ray. A stream of electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths shorter than those of x-rays and therefore greater energy and penetrating power.. A photon of electromagnetic radiation of very short wavelength, less than about 0.01 nanometer, and very high energy, greater than about 100,000 electron volts. Gamma rays are emitted in the decay of certain radioactive nuclei and in electron-positron annihilation. 2. A narrow beam of such photons.
The ribosomes makes proteins using coded instructions that come from the nucleus
Instructions for that sequence are encoded in genes . To make a particular protein, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) copy is made from the gene (in the process called transcription ), and the mRNA is transported to the ribosome . Protein synthesis, also called translation , begins when the two ribosomal subunits link onto the mRNA.