MBG 2040 Final: Chapter 11 MBG notes

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One strand of dna of gene used as a template to synthesize a complementary strand of rna (transcript) Perpetuation of genetic information from generation to generation through high fidelity dna replication. Expression of genetic information: transcription (to produce distinct types of function rnas), Translation of mrnas into proteins (enzymes, structural proteins, signal molecules: translation occurs on ribosomes. The primary transcript (transcription product) matched mrna because processing isn"t required (no introns or exons: sequence of a gene is co-linear with those of its mrna and polypeptide chain. Mrnas are often polygenic aka poly-cistoronic (one sequences can code for multiple proteins- where as in eukaryotes many sequences code for a single polypeptide) One dna- dependent rna polymerase takes it all. All stages of genome replication, transcription and translation occur within the plasma (cell) membrane (there is no nucleus in prokaryotes) Eukaryotic genomes are much larger and more complex.

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