The Central Dogma
By the end of the week, I will be able to describe how genes allow for gene expression by reading about the Central Dogma, drawing a diagram and writing a paragraph to go with my analysis. Reference: The Central Dogma>
- Write a paragraph to summarize the Central Dogma
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A. What Is The Central Dogma?It is located in the nucleus of a cell. DNA is inside the cell. The DNA transfers some information into another similar molecule called RNA. But the message that is transferred is changed a bit the message originally having G go with C and A go with T and vise versa it is altered so that G goes with C and vise versa but T goes with A but A goes with U. The molecule RNA then is carrying the message outside of the nucleus of the cell. It creates the proteins because it has the message from the original DNA molecule.
C. What is a gene?The letters in a DNA alphabet when matched up in the specific order make up a word which the words later make a sentence. The sentence is called a gene
E. What is a protein?
Genes tell the cell to make proteins. The proteins later make certain functions possible like hearing. It makes it possible to make these functions by working with other cells to conduct those activities.
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B. What Is DNA?DNA is a molecule. It is a detailed set of plans that encoded in the DNA alphabet. A, T, C, G form the DNA alphabet. It looks like a twisted ladder called a double helix. The rungs of the ladder are made up of the DNA alphabet.
D. Transcription and Translation
Inside the nucleus of a cell is a molecule called DNA. The DNA give its message to another molecule that is outside of the nucleus called RNA. The RNA has the message but reworded. The message forms something called a gene. That gene tells the cell to make protein.
F. An Example of Gene Expression
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