GENERAL

• WHAT ARE THE STAGES OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS?

  1. Transcription
  2. Splicing (eukaryotic only)
  3. Translation
• WHAT IS TRANSCRIPTION?

  when one gene on DNA is copied into mRNA
• WHAT IS TRANSLATION?

  where mRNA joins with ribosome, and corresponding tRNA molecules bring specific AAs that the codon codes for
• DIFFERENCES IN TRANSCRIPTION BETWEEN PROKARYOTES AND EUKARYOTES?

  • no splicing occurs in prokaryotic as they have no introns
  • in prokaryotic, mRNA produced rather than pre-mRNA
  • in prokaryotic, transcription in the cytoplasm not the nucleus