A significant proportion of our genetic information encoded in DNA is expressed in a living cell as proteins. In order to synthesize a protein,this information needs to be converted from nucleotide sequence to the language of amino acids. The process of the decoding is called translation, and it involves the distinct nucleic acid molecule, or messenger RNA (mRNA) - the "temporary carrier" of the information,which is a copy of one specific gene. Special molecular machine - the ribosome - moves along the mRNA and reads nucleotide triplets. Each triplet encodes a specific amino acid.
Source: phys.org