With computer animation, we can enter the cell to view this remarkable system at work.
After entering the heart of the cell, we see the tightly wind strands of DNA, store houses for the instructions necessary to build every protein in an organism. In a process known as transcription, molecular machine first unwinds a section of the DNA helix to expose the genetic instructions needed to assemble a specific protein molecule. Another machine then copies this instructions to form a molecule known as messenger RNA (mRNA).
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