Copy of Transcription/Translation Interactive (5/28/2026)

According to the overview, after the amino acid chain is complete, it will fold up to form a protein, which has a structure.

is the first of two-steps in protein synthesis (the making of proteins).

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Every single gene that is used in protein synthesis has three sections - promoter, coding region, and terminator.

The function of the promoter is to .

The coding region .

The termination sequence .

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The enzyme that is responsible for making mRNA by reading the gene on the DNA molecule is .

RNA polymerase recognizes (and attaches to) the of the gene.

RNA polymerase will the double helix after it binds to the DNA.

RNA polymerase will begin to build an mRNA once it reaches the of the gene.

are added by the RNA as it reads each nucleotide on the gene of the DNA.

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The mRNA will once the RNA polymerase reaches the terminator sequence.

This prevents transcription from continuing which leads to the mRNA to

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During translation, the ribosome will read on the mRNA at a time; each of these sequences of three nucleotides are called a .

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The ribosome is looking for the (AUG), which is where the construction of an will begin.

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tRNA is used to to the ribosome.

The part of the tRNA that determines the type of amino acid is the .

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tRNA's have an anticodon that has a three-nucleotide sequence that matches the on the mRNA are brought into the ribosome carrying their amino acid.

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The process of the tRNA's bringing in amino acids to the ribosome leads to an elongation of the amino acid chain will continue until the ribosome reads the .

After the amino acid chain is released, it will into a 3-dimensional structure that will form a functional protein.

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