translation
Remember that proteins are made out of amino acids. How does the information in the gene get converted from the language of nucleotides to the language of amino acids? The process is called translation . The amino acids are placed in a specific order during translation. The order is specified by the codons in the mRNA, which is produced during transcription. As the mRNA sequence is based on the gene sequence in the DNA, the order of amino acids that makes the protein is based on the gene sequence as well.