Protein Synthesis

Genetic Code => "nucleotide code" found in the DNA that helps make protein. There are two parts of this: translation and transcription.

• The process of Transcription involves taking the DNA, separating it, and copying its corresponding pairs to RNA
• The process of Translation involves taking the RNA and making proteins.
• Non-coding sequence: metadata for DNA for the processors
• Coding sequence: DNA content for amino-acid production

Occasionally, the RNA is what we want to end up with, so then obviously we no longer need the process of Translation.

The process of transcription is the process by which DNA is converted to messenger RNA, a type of RNA that travels to the ribosome to create a protein. This process is dependent on the enzyme RNA Polymerease, which is the primary driver that handles DNA transcription.

See KBhBIO101DNATranscription

After the transcribed mRNA is finished, Eukaryotes only will need to go through one additional process called "mRNA processing" that both remove the non-protein-synthesizing Introns of the mRNA sequence, and mark the mRNA for maturity.

Notably, Prokaryotes does not do this! Prokarotes' coding sequence always makes a full protein, so we just start at promoter and end at terminator and make a protein!

See KBhBIO101mRNAPreprocessing