Sunday, August 14, 2011

Protein synthesis and DNA?

Well, if there is a transcription error during replication, you end up making a whole new protein. Depending on the error, it could be the same amino acid, but a different sequence. This may, or may not, affect the actual protein made. If that transcription error happens to be a stop codon, no protein is made at all, because the stop codon tells the ribosome to stop making that particular protein.

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