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Theme D - Continuity & Change
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Theme D - Continuity & Change

Unlocking mRNA Translation Step-By-Step Ribosome Journey

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🌏 Real-world Connection: Imagine you're building a beaded necklace. Each bead represents an amino acid, and the string represents the polypeptide chain. The beads come with a specific set of instructions on how they should be arranged – that's the mRNA! And the machine putting them together bead-by-bead? That's the ribosome! Let's dive deep.

 

🎉 Fun Fact: Ribosomes are the factories of our cells. They’re so crucial that if they went on strike, our cells would be in a pickle! 🥒

Stepwise Samba with Ribosomes

  • 🎶 Ribosome Rumble: Translation of mRNA is like a dance, with each step adding a new amino acid to our growing polypeptide chain (the necklace!).
  • 🦀 Three-Step Shuffle: Each dance move of our ribosome covers three bases on the mRNA, also known as ONE codon.

🖼️ Picture this: A dance cycle illustrated in "Figure 13" (Don't forget to take a

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Theme D - Continuity & Change
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Theme D - Continuity & Change

Unlocking mRNA Translation Step-By-Step Ribosome Journey

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488 words
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3 mins read
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Last edited on 14th Jun 2024

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🌏 Real-world Connection: Imagine you're building a beaded necklace. Each bead represents an amino acid, and the string represents the polypeptide chain. The beads come with a specific set of instructions on how they should be arranged – that's the mRNA! And the machine putting them together bead-by-bead? That's the ribosome! Let's dive deep.

 

🎉 Fun Fact: Ribosomes are the factories of our cells. They’re so crucial that if they went on strike, our cells would be in a pickle! 🥒

Stepwise Samba with Ribosomes

  • 🎶 Ribosome Rumble: Translation of mRNA is like a dance, with each step adding a new amino acid to our growing polypeptide chain (the necklace!).
  • 🦀 Three-Step Shuffle: Each dance move of our ribosome covers three bases on the mRNA, also known as ONE codon.

🖼️ Picture this: A dance cycle illustrated in "Figure 13" (Don't forget to take a

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