BIOL 101 Chapter 14: BIO 101 Chapter 14 TEXTBOOK NOTES

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Proteins are composed of building blocks called amino acids. A string of amino acids is called a polypeptide chain, which when folded into a three-dimensional shape is a protein. Hundreds of thousands of proteins are put together from a starting set of 20 amino acids. The order in which the amino acids are linked in a polypeptide chain determines which protein will be produced. Proteins often are composed of two or more linked polypeptide chains. Less than 2 percent of the dna in the human genome codes for proteins. Some non-coding segments of dna may be junk that never had a function,but scientists are increasingly skeptical that any human dna fits this description. Translation: joining the mrna chain of the ribosomes are amino acid, brought there by the transfer rna molecule. The transfer rna is then read by within the ribosome. Amino acid linked to specified by mrna sequence: the chain is finished and folded up.

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