The Synthesis of Protein Links to animations and other sites where protein synthesis is discussed can be found by clicking here . Technically, genes are the instructions for producing polypeptides.
Genes provide the instructions for making specific proteins .
A gene is a specific sequence of nucleotides and typically consists of hundreds or thousands of the nucleotides. Therefore, in this chapter we will examine how the sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecule is used to specify the sequence of amino acids in the protein the gene is coding for. Transcription is the synthesis of RNA using the sequence of nucleotides of DNA as a template. Read this section and concentrate on the items given below. Read this section to learn how the genetic code was deciphered.