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How is Protein Actually Made?

Questions

Please answer the questions below.

Question 2.1

Remember that DNA is always in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. What needs to happen so we can get the protein-building instructions from the DNA in the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where proteins are put together? Describe the process below and click on the corresponding button in the model.

Question 2.2

What is the relationship between the deoxyribonucleotides in the template DNA and the ribonucleotides in the growing mRNA? (what "goes with" what?)

Question 2.3

Once the mRNA is done being made, click “translate.” Translation is the process of building a protein using the instructions provided through mRNA. The enzyme that carries out this process is called a ribosome (that green bumpy thing in the computer model) and it is made of protein and RNA. (The green fork-like things are tRNAs)

Write down 3 things you notice during the translation animation

Question 2.4

SAQ: What is the relationship between the ribonucleotides on the mRNA and the amino acids that are being put together to form the protein (think about numbers of things)?

Notes

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