Making a Cry1Ab expressing plant: Protein synthesis

I. Translation

A. Ribosomes

B. Conversion of RNA sequence to amino acid sequence: codons

C. Genetic code

D. tRNA

E. Steps of translation

F. In class transcription/translation exercise

Study Questions:

1 What reaction is carried out in the ribosome?

2. Does the ribosome translate the RNA code into the protein code? Explain your reasoning.

3. What is the genetic code? Be able to use it to predict the amino acid sequence of a protein from a known mRNA sequence.

4. What is a codon? What is it recognized by?

5. What is a reading frame? How is it set during translation? Why is it important?

6. Who translates the mRNA nucleotide sequence into a protein amino acid sequence?

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