Could've caused more heartburn if they had announced the decision on the winter solstice.
Any relation to "Fitzmas" btw? ;-)
Journalists tend to think and write in lemming-like alliterative displays.
Full Disclosure: translation vs. transcription? Anyone with a website to describe this? 'Tis past my bedtime again and I can't remember the difference.
Cheers!
Central Dogma of Molecular Genetics: DNA serves as a template for RNA synthesis, RNA codes for an amino acid chain that will form an active protein.
Transcription: DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerase to make an RNA transcript that will contain the ‘code’ for an amino acid sequence that will make an active protein such as an enzyme. This takes place in the cell nucleus when a transcription factor binds to the promoter region of a gene and then recruits RNA polymerase to make a transcript of the gene.
Translation: RNA is ‘translated’ into an amino acid sequence at the ribosome (a large molecule protein and RNA structure in the internal membranes or cytoplasm of the cell). The RNA transcript is fed through the ribosome like a film strip and each triplet codon of RNA is matched to its specific amino acid. As the transcript feeds through the ribosome an amino acid chain forms. When this amino acid chain is properly folded it is an active molecular machine; a protein and/or enzyme.
Hope this helps. This is, of course, a simplified version. There are, as I have mentioned, multiple levels of control. Phosporylation of RNA polymerase is a newly discovered mechanism of control which will regulate what subset of transcription factors it will preferentially bind to, influencing which genes it will turn on. This is not a ‘code within a code’ or ‘code upon a code’ and has NOTHING to do with Translation. So the headline is about as ignorant as the person who wrote it would have to be about basic Biology (oh, but they know so much better than actual Biologists; and have much stronger interpretive powers when wielding our data because of their non dependence upon natural law.).