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To: GodGunsGuts
There is no topic. IF there are codes upon codes then translate the code for me. The only actual “code” in DNA is that a triplet codon specifies an amino acid. That code I can translate for you and have before. It is called the Universal Code of Genetics.

The Science behind the stupid headline about Translation has to do with Transcription and not Translation. The two are not transcription/translation; one takes place in the cell nucleus the other way out in the cytoplasm or endoplasmic reticulum and they are not similar processes except in both being complex and having multiple levels of control. The enzyme that makes an RNA transcript from a DNA template has phosporylation sites. These are common features of proteins and control their binding to other proteins or their activity state. On RNA polymerase these phosporylation sites control which transcription factors (proteins that bind to the promoter region of a gene and recruit RNA polymerase to make an RNA to get made into a protein out of the gene) the RNA polymerase will preferentially interact with.

For example. Phosporylation state A would mean that RNA polymerase would bind to Transcription factors in subset A but also Z; activating the genes in subset A and Z. In Phosphorylation state B RNA polymerase would not bind to the transcription factors in subset A, but only subset B and also Z (Z genes apparently always need to be active).

It is a very interesting finding, and has to do with TRANSCRIPTION control, any talk of ‘codes’ is sensationalism for selling the Science to journalists who only understand very simple things. Creationists then read the Journalists translation of a Scientist talking about transcription and make a big headline for their credulous readers that says “DNA Translation Has Codes Upon Codes”. So translate the code for me if you can, otherwise it isn’t a ‘code’ it is just yet another level of control for the actual code that is there; namely “AUG codon -> Methionine”, etc.

59 posted on 12/20/2007 7:32:00 AM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (Hunter 08))
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To: allmendream
==There is no topic. IF there are codes upon codes then translate the code for me. The only actual “code” in DNA is that a triplet codon specifies an amino acid. That code I can translate for you and have before. It is called the Universal Code of Genetics.

You treat your outdated biology textbooks as though they are chiseled in stone like the Ten Commandments. Meanwhile, real science is leaving you behind. Again, it was none other than the official publication of the AAAS who declared that the best available evidence suggests that CTD phosphorylation patterns constitute “a code.” So again, your beef is with your Temple of Darwin brethren, not with Creation Scientists, who are simply reporting the story (which just goes to show that nature was created in such a way that the more Darwinism learns, the more it does itself in...LOL).

95 posted on 12/20/2007 6:23:32 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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