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Translation Elongation

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Translation elongation adds one amino acid at a time to the growing chain, as the ribosome moves codon by codon along mRNA.

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A charged tRNA enters site A, its amino acid bonds to the chain at site P, and the ribosome shifts one codon.

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Elongation repeats this cycle for every codon between start and stop — it never skips or reorders codons.