Saturday, February 25, 2012

What is a product of DNA Translation and how to represent it?

I need to take a picture of a product of DNA translation or tangible representation of it. I can't use google pics, so that's why I need a example that I can find in day-to-day life.



For example, for DNA replication, I could stand beside a copy machine and hold up two identical sheets of paper. If I can't get an actual picture of the term, then I need to do something like that for this as well.What is a product of DNA Translation and how to represent it?
Here's a good way to represent or at least think of the process of transcription (DNA to RNA) and translation (RNA to protein).



Let a textbook represent DNA. Copy a few pages from it with a copy machine or by printing neatly by hand to represent mRNA. Hand copy a few sentences from the text into another language (any language) to represent protein (protein has been translated from the language of nucleic acids into the language of amino acids.What is a product of DNA Translation and how to represent it?
I saw this a little ago when you asked and couldn't really think of anything, but I think this would be a good idea:



mRNA is translated in to a long amino acid chain (or polypeptidal chain) or a protein by the Ribosome (just to answer 'what is a product of DNA Translation'). So what you could do is draw a house on a piece of paper (no artistic work needed lol) and if there is something being built nearby like a store or a house go and stand as close to it with your drawn house and take a picture. The drawn house on the piece of paper is the mRNA, or the 'blueprints' for the house/store/building, the builders are like the ribosomes translating the blueprints in to the end product; the building.What is a product of DNA Translation and how to represent it?
A product of translation is a polypeptide (a string of amino acids, joined by peptide bonds).

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