BIO 1140 Study Guide - Aminoacyl-Trna, Spliceosome, Base Pair
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14. 1 pathway from gene to polypeptide involves transcription and translation: there are two major steps: transcription and translation. Transcription: dna is made into a complimentary rna copy. Information in one nucleic acid type is transferred to another nucleic acid type. Translation: use of information encoded in the rna to assemble amino acids into a polypeptide. Information in a nucleic acid is converted into amino acids: francis crick coined the term central dogma to describe the flow of information from. Dna to rna to protein: transcription: rna polymerase creates a rna sequence that is complementary to the. The template strand is read by the rna polymerase. Rna transcribed from a gene encoding a polypeptide is called mrna. In translation a mrna associates with a ribosome. The genetic code is a three letter code; each 3 letter code is called a codon. Each codon codes for one amino acid.
