Protein Synthesis: Transcription, Translation, and Mutations
Think-Pair-Share: What can you identify/ remember about this topic?
What are we looking at? A cell
Where is all the genetic information stored for a cell? The nucleus
It sends the message through mRNA How does this DNA get the message out of the nucleus to other parts of the cell? It sends the message through mRNA
Where does mRNA take this message to be turned into a protein? Into the cytoplasm, to a ribosome (grey circle around the mRNA)
Which comes first alphabetically, translation or transcription? then TransLation Transcription happens first, in the nucleus, then TransLation occurs at the ribosome to make a protein
You will use this page to do your practice problems
DNA RNA A U T A C G G C Always look up your mRNA to find the amino acid. TAG CGA AUC GCU UAG CGA Iso. Ala.
Codon Bingo DNA RNA A U T A C G G C DNA mRNA tRNA A.A Always look up your mRNA to find the amino acid. 1st round: Call out DNA 2nd round: Call out mRNA 3rd round: Call out tRNA
Identify this Process On the back of your bingo card, write whether the process you see is Transcription, Translation, or all of Protein Synthesis. When I say so, show me your board. Have a reason for why you picked your answer. (ex: It had DNA, It had RNA, it occurred in the nucleus, It occurred outside the nuceleus, I saw tRNA, etc)
leu arg ser arg U G C G U A G U C G G cys val A wrong protein, or a non-functioning protein can be made. Val Block this out
ADDED NO STOP CODON DIFFERENT NUCLEOTIDE CAN CANNOT REMOVED Swapped out NO DIFFERENT STOP CODON DIFFERENT
Mutations Card Sort Each group of students get a set of cards and each student gets a student handout and a codon chart. Students must sort the cards in to groups. Each group must have: 1) an image or mutation example card, 2) one or more mutation type cards, and 3) a description card . Note: There will be more than one type of mutation card in each group except non-disjunction. Students should use their student handout to label each example and take any needed notes.
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