Ribosomes are the machinery of the cell that are responsible for synthesizing our polypeptides via a process known as translation. And translation itself, as we discussed previously, involves three important stages. We have initiation, the elongation, and the termination stage. Now, in eukaryotic cells, ribosomes begin to synthesize the polypeptide chain in the cytosol of aracel. And such ribosomes that are found in the cytosol and which are not attached to any organelle are known as free ribosomes. Now, if the growing polypeptide chain that is being synthesized by the free ribosome is destined to remain inside the cytoplasm of the cell, in such a case, the free ribosome will remain a free ribosome.