What is the function of ribosomes?
Answer

They convert energy locked in sugars.

They store water, ions, nutrients, and wastes.

They are sites of protein synthesis.

They transport protein blueprints to other parts of the cell.

Question

What is the function of ribosomes?
Answer
		
They convert energy locked in sugars.
		
They store water, ions, nutrients, and wastes.
		
They are sites of protein synthesis.
		
They transport protein blueprints to other parts of the cell.

anonymous · Answer

They are sites of protein synthesis. They are involved with translation, where amino acids are produced from reading in codons from the mRNA. The amino acids then combine in a chain to produce a polypeptide, which can fold multiple times to become a fully-developed protein.