1. Protein synthesis Transcription

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

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

4. Figure 17.6 The stages of transcription: elongation

5. Figure 17.7 The initiation of transcription at a eukaryotic promoter

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

7. Figure 17.9 RNA processing: RNA splicing

8. Figure 17.10 The roles of snRNPs and spliceosomes in mRNA splicing

9. Figure 17.11 Correspondence between exons and protein domains

10. Figure 17.3 The triplet code

11. 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