BIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Messenger Rna, Nuclear Membrane, Peptide

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The information content of dna is in the form of specific sequences of nucleotides. The dna inherited in an organism leads to specific traits by dictating the synthesis of proteins. Proteins are the links between genotype and phenotype. Gene expression, the process by which dna directs protein synthesis, includes two stages: transcription and translation the products of gene expression: a developing story. Note that it is common to refer to gene products as proteins rather than polypeptides- sometimes proteins need more than one polypeptide. Rna is the intermediate between genes and the proteins for which they code. Transcription is the synthesis of rna under the direction of dna. Translation is the synthesis of a polypeptide, which occurs under the direction of mrna. In prokaryotes, mrna produced by transcription is immediately translated without more processing. In a eukaryotic cell, the nuclear envelope separates transcription from translation. Eukaryotic rna transcripts are modified through rna processing to yield finished mrna.

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