Protein synthesis Transcription

Figure 17.1 Beadle and Tatum’s evidence for the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis

Figure 17.2 Overview: the roles of transcription and translation in the flow of genetic information (Layer 5)

Figure 17.6 The stages of transcription: elongation

Figure 17.7 The initiation of transcription at a eukaryotic promoter

Figure 17.8 RNA processing; addition of the 5 cap and poly(A) tail

Figure 17.9 RNA processing: RNA splicing

Figure The roles of snRNPs and spliceosomes in mRNA splicing

Figure Correspondence between exons and protein domains

Figure 17.3 The triplet code

The reading frame problem: What message is present? TRTHEFATCATATETHERAT THE FAT CAT ATE THE RAT Need to know –how letters are grouped –where to start How about here? TTAREHTETATACTAFEHTT