Nucleic acids are important information storage molecules present in virtually every cell. Which processes is carried out by a cell when it accesses that information in the DNA of the genes?

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Marlee Horne

Biology

2 April, 03:49

Nucleic acids are important information storage molecules present in virtually every cell. Which processes is carried out by a cell when it accesses that information in the DNA of the genes?

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Casey Dominguez · Answer 1

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The DNA is stored in the nucleus of the cell. The DNA has the sequence information of every gene. This means that depending on the DNA sequence, we are going to have a particular protein. The transcription is a process within the cell in which an enzyme called polymerase enters the nucleus and transcribes the DNA into another molecule, RNA. Let's say that this process makes another "copy" of the nucleic acid sequence, but now the RNA is able to get out of the nucleus carrying genetic information into the cytoplasm. In the cytoplasm, the RNA is translated into protein. During the translation, a ribosome "reads" the RNA and builds the protein depending on the nucleic acid sequence. To sum up, we can say that the transcription is the first process involved in accessing the information from the DNA.