Saturday, December 12, 2009

Blog 12-The steps of photosynthesis

First, a message is sent to the cell to see how much protien it needs to make. The DNA starts to come undone so there is only a gene that has to do with that protien. The nucleotides match up with on sugar backbone to make mRNA. A matches up with U and C matches up with G. Many copies of RNA are made and they leave the nucleus and enter the cytoplasm. The RNA comes together with a ribosome and the ribosome reads the message that the RNA had. There are codons and they have to be read. When that is finished the right amino acids are activated by an enzyme. Then the amino acids attaches to the correct tRNA, or a transfer RNA. Then that tRNA goes and conects to the next one and so on! That happens until everything is read and it forms a polypeptide chain. The polypeptide folds as it's final transformation. Multiple copies of protien are made in this process. The mRNA is recycled so it can be used in different transformations.

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