>>8800516Okay, SO:
You know how DNA is like a big squiggly helix? It's made of deoxyribose sugar, which is bonded to some phosphate groups and more importantly for this explanation; the nitrogenous bases. Those nitrogenous boys basically are responsible for the coding part of DNA and come in four different flavours. A few of those flavours stacked together in a row, correspond to a specific amino acid. And with some (a HECKING LOT) of amino acids in a row, you get a specific protein structure like haemoglobin or whatever the heck you like.
SO:
It's a zipper with lots of flavours, the flavours determine the amino acids, and the amino acids determine the protein.
There's two parts of the zipper, there's the coding strand and the template strand. They connect via hydrogen bonds, and each flavour corresponds to its opposite. So sour with sweet, salty with bitter. Or whatever idk fuck metaphors lole.
A lil enzyme called helicase unzips the helix, and exposes the template strand, then ya get some RNA nucleotides (more flavours) that bind to it and basically make a tesco's own version, which is identical to the coding strand.
That RNA nucleotide strand then zips away off of the template strand and now you've got the instructions all set up for the production of proteins.
Now basically imagine an old loom with those punch cards that let it make cool patterns and you've got how it works. I skipped a lot of shid but I still feel like I've written way too much I'm sorry. Took me a while cause I was trying to stay efficient in runescape at the same time
