BIOL 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Genetic Code, Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology, Peptide

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The central dogma is the concept that cells are governed by a cellular chain of. Rna is the bridge between genes and the proteins for which they code. Transcription is the synthesis of rna under the direction of dna: a primary transcript is the first rna product, this becomes messenger rna (mrna) Translation is the synthesis of a polypeptide, using information in the mrna. The flow of information from gene to protein is based on a triplet code: a series of three- nucleotides: atc= 1 amino acid. The words of a gene are transcribed into complementary three-nucleotide words of mrna. These words are then translated into a chain of amino acids, forming a polypeptide. Codons along an mrna molecule are read by translation machinery in the 5" to 3" direction. Each codon specifies the amino acid (one of 20) to be placed at the corresponding position along a polypeptide. All 64 triplets were deciphered by the mid-1960"s.

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