Central Dogma intro

Tuesday April  2^nd

DNA ultimately codes for what macromolecule?

Proteins 

What monomer is that macromolecule made up of?

Amino Acids 

Where in the cell does the production of this macromolecule occur?

 Ribosomes

DNA never leaves the nucleus, so what molecule carries the instructions that DNA gives?

RNA

After this we started looking at the interactive reader on this topic.  This chapter is about how we go from DNA.......

That gross snotty stringy stuff we extracted from the strawberries

To US!!  This is known as the "Central Dogma"

 We then started into the following notes.

DNA on the left, RNA on the Right

I had you look at the second page of your interactive reader as a guide to going through transcription
with your DNA models.

You unzipped the DNA and started to add the RNA bases.  Everything pairs up as it did with DNA only if there was a
White (Adenine) on the DNA side it coded for Purple (Uracil) on the RNA side.)

This continued until it reached the end of the gene

At that point the DNA zips back up again and the RNA is released.

I then had you watch the first part of the following video to show you how this actually happens in our cells.