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Question Bank [2022] — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYQuestion Bank [2022]1 Mark
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What is central dogma of molecular biology?
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i. The central dogma of molecular biology explains the flow of genetic information, from DNA to RNA to make a functional product, a protein
ii. Genetic information is transferred from DNA to mRNA through transcription and from mRNA to proteins through translation.

DNA $\stackrel{\text { Transcription }}{\longrightarrow} m$ RNA $\stackrel{\text { Transcription }}{\longrightarrow}$ proteins

iii. It implies that RNA acts as a messenger to deliver the information from DNA to the ribosomes, where it is combined to generate all of our proteins.

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