What do genes do?
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Learn how information in DNA is used to create proteins through the processes of transcription and translation. Understand the relationship between DNA and amino acids, and how RNA is synthesized from DNA. Discover where these processes occur within the cell. Enroll in our free course now!
This free course, What do genes do?, explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Understand how the linear sequence of DNA within a gene is related to the linear sequence of amino acids of a protein
Understand how the information in DNA is carried via RNA to make a protein
Understand how RNA is synthesised from DNA by the process of transcription
Understand where the processes of transcription and translation occur within the cell.
