The Central Dogma
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The central dogma states that genetic information flows from DNA to RNA by transcription, then from RNA to protein by translation.
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A gene's DNA sequence is transcribed into mRNA, which is then translated into a chain of amino acids.
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The central dogma names the ordinary direction of information flow — it does not claim every process runs in this order without exception.
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- 1249 The Genetic Code's Triplet Codons
- 1259 Prokaryotic RNA Polymerase and the Promoter
- 1295 Tracing One Gene from Transcription Through a Finished Protein
- 1311 Levels of Gene-Expression Regulation, Overview
- 1325 The Central Dogma's One-Way Information Flow, Restated
- 1521 Genomics Defined
- 1595 The Proteome
- 1605 Tracing a Trait from a Sequenced Gene to Proteome-Level Function