Help Please!! 1- How could you tell whether a given sequence was DNA or mRNA?
2- Was it easier to decode messages written in DNA or in mRNA sequences?
3- Which cellular enzymes or machines are you imitating when you "transcribe" DNA into mRNA?
4- Which cellular enzymes or machines are you imitating when you "translate" mRNA into a chain of amino acids?
5- What else needs to happen in a eukaryotic cell between the processes of transcription and translation?
6- In step 5, how did different mutations affect the amino acid sequence that was encoded?
7- Explain why some single nucleotide mutations affect an amino acid sequence and some single nucleotide mutations do not.
8- Explain why nucleotide insertions and deletions affect the amino acid sequence so profoundly.
9- Why could your secret message include only 20 of the 26 letters of the alphabet?
10- Did you find that it was difficult to work with only these letters?