brownbag-science
Central Dogma
(taken from wikimedia.org)
(figure from cancer.gov)
Transcription
Strands of RNA can be referred to as “transcripts”. RNA is usually spliced, processed, and modified before it is ready for translation.
Important! Several different transcripts can be generated from a single gene.
(figure taken from wikipedia.org)
Translation
In RNA, units of three nucleotides that encode for amino acids are referred to as codons.
(figure taken from nature.com)
(figure taken from genome.gov)
FYI
- ~2% of mammalian DNA is comprised of exons.