RNA Codon Translation Cypher - table 5.2
Table 5-2: Each amino acid is encoded by one or more RNA codons. This RNA codon table is used to know which RNA codons code for each amino acid. Note that different codons can code for the same amino acid.
Codon usage in E coli - table 5.3
tRNAs are the physical connectors that bind to the RNA codons in the ribosome. tRNAs are not expressed equally in cells, rather, there is a diversity of tRNA expression within a single organism, and between species of organisms. For example, if we were to extract and purify all the tRNAs listed in Table 5-2, we would not see them in equal proportions. Rather, E. coli cells express some tRNAs more than others. See E. coli Codon Use Table. (Table 5-3)
Breakout exercise 1 - Be the cell Machinery - DNA to Protein.
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In this quick breakout exercise, you’re going to practice what you know about how a cell is able to “read” DNA and ultimately create protein.
Breakout exercise 2 - Be the cell Machinery - Decode the message
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Decode the secret message from DNA with the two ciphers you learned in Chapters 4 and 5
Breakout exercise 3 - Be the cell Machinery - Bidirectional translation instructions
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Now that you have learned more about how the ribosome translates an RNA transcript into protein using the RNA to protein cipher, head back to page 120 (Ch. 4) to finish the bidirectional translation Breakout Exercise.