Transcription
Q. what is the name of the process that make protein from RNA?
Translation
Q. Where does it happen during transcription?
in nucleus
the five facts
1.DNA is a huge information database that carries the complete set of instructions for making all the proteins a cell will ever need
2.there are only four different bases in DNA (A, C, G and T), the order in which the bases occur determines the information to make a protein
3.A nucleic acid very similar to DNA, called mRNA or messenger RNA, is a copy of a gene, and serves this function the "bridge" between DNA and protein
4.The sugar in DNA is deoxyribose; in RNA it is ribose
5.DNA is "transcribed" or re-written into RNA in a very complicated process called transcrption.
diagram
Transcription : in the nucleus, the cell's machinery copies the gene sequence into mRNA, a molecule that is similar to DNA
Translation : the protein- making machinery, called the ribosome, reads the mRNA sequence and translates it into the amino acid sequence of the protein
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=983lhh20rGY&feature=related
summary
The DNA that makes up the human genome can be subdivided into information bytes called genes. Each gene encodes a unique protein that performs a specialized function in the cell.Cells use the two-step process of transcription and translation to read each gene and produce the string of amino acids that makes up a protein.
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