The information from the DNA is used as a template and rewritten onto the RNA resulting in the messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule that carries a genetic message from the DNA to the part of the cell that synthesizes the protein. Translation is the synthesis of a polypeptide using the information provided by the mRNA. In ribosomes, the cell translates the nucleotide sequence of the mRNA molecule into the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. Transcription and translation occur in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In eukaryotes, the nuclear membrane separates transcription and translation, while in prokaryotes there is no membrane, so mRNA can begin transcription before translation is complete. Eukaryotic RNA transcripts are modified through RNA processing to be finite