Reprogramming the code of life

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Presenter: Jason Chin

Published: January 2010

Age: 18-22 and upwards

Views: 1687 views

Tags: codons

Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Royal Society


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The information for synthesizing the molecules that allow organisms to survive and replicate is encoded in genomic DNA. In the cell, DNA is copied to messenger RNA, and triplet codons in the messenger RNA are decoded in the process of translation to synthesize polymers of the natural 20 amino acids.

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