Gene to Protein: Big, Science-y Themes
Regulation
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." No you aren't in English class and no we are not about to ask you about allegories, epigraphs, or allusions. What we will say though, is that...
Structure and Function
Transcription and translation overcome a number of obstacles to produce functional RNAs and proteins. You've probably guessed by now that the structures of the factors involved are absolutely essen...
Levels of Organization
Up until this point we have talked about transcription and translation as though all the players magically came together. But in reality, it is a lot more complicated. DNA is in the nucleus in a eu...