I am a tiny factory that never sleeps, creating proteins and life in leaps. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think of the site of protein synthesis in cells.
Answer
Ribosome
Explanation
Ribosomes are responsible for translating mRNA into proteins, acting as the cellular factories.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Ribosome.
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