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Central Dogma of Molecular Biology : Central dogmaThe Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, a term coined by Sir Francis Crick, states that the flow of genetic information is "DNA to RNA to protein". With the discovery of reverse transcriptase in retroviruses, the central dogma was extended with "RNA to DNA". It can be stated in a very short and oversimplified manner as "DNA makes RNA makes proteins, which in turn facilitate the previous two steps as well as the replication of DNA", or simply "DNA->DNA->RNA->Protein". This process is therefore broken down into 3 steps: Transcription, Translation, and Replication. By new knowledge of the RNA processing, a fourth step must be included, the splicing.
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Transcription is the process by which the information contained in a section of DNA is transferred to a newly assembled piece of mRNA. It is facilitated by RNA polymerase and transcription factors.
Eventually, this ripe mRNA finds its way to a ribosome, where it is translated. The ribosome's function is to take individual amino acids of the correct kind and link them in a chain in the right order, based on the sequence of the mRNA. Once the amino acids are linked into the chain, they are released from the ribosome and fold into a new protein. Sometimes this folding process has to be helped along by other proteins, called chaperone proteins[?].
Finally, back right to where we started, a protein called DNA polymerase opens up the DNA and with the help of several other proteins allows the DNA to replicate itself.
The discovery of retroviruses, which transcribe RNA into DNA through the use of a special enzyme called reverse transcriptase has resulted in the modification of the Central Dogma to include an RNA->DNA pathway. Some people even include Protein->Protein as one of the possible pathways due to the discovery or prions.
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Transcription Translation DNA replication alternative splicing
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knotted club and a short knife, the latter hanging in its sheath at
belt supporting a leathern pouch at his right side. It was Ta-den
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of Tarzan the Terrible had made him familiar and also, thanks to
hostility.
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did not understand.
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some place beyond the mountains and Ta-den was convinced that the
discover whether as friend or foe.
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but greater than all was the sense of relief that the first inhabitant
greatly would he have been handicapped by the necessity for forcing
meat of which is especially relished by the Ho-don, forgot his
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