1. Translation (The Specifics) Audra Brown Ward Marist School Atlanta, Georgia warda@marist.com

2. Instructions: 1.Be sure to print each different component on a different color paper; for instance, codons should be all in one color. Each amino acid should be a different color. 2.Be sure to laminate everything! 3.To make peptide bonds, just cut sheets of white cardstock into thirds or fourths, laminate them and attach velcro to them to attach to amino acids. 4.Dont forget to have codon charts available! 5.Make enough amino acids so that each student gets to be a tRNA at least once.

3. UAA

4. AUG

5. UUU

6. CUU

7. AUU

8. GUA

9. UCG

10. CCA

11. ACC

12. GCA

13. UAU

14. CAC

15. CAA

16. AAC

17. AAA

18. GAU

19. GAG

20. UGU

21. UGG

22. CGA

23. GGC

24. Glutamic Acid

25. Asparagine

26. Lysine

27. Aspartic Acid

28. Cysteine

29. Tryptophan

30. Arginine

31. Glycine

32. Alanine

33. Tyrosine

34. Histidine

35. Valine

36. Serine

37. Proline

38. Threonine

39. Phenylalanine

40. Leucine

41. Isoleucine

42. Glutamine

43. Methionine