Transcription and Translation: How many beads did you use?
Procedure *Note: In this experiment Regular beads are used as nucleotides and Pop-it beads are used as amino acids. Use the following sentence and code for this experiment: I like to eat apples.
| Letter (Codon) | Code |
| A | GBY |
| E | GRB |
| I | BGG |
| K | BRY |
| L | YRB |
| O | YBG |
| P | BGY |
| S | BBR |
| T | RGB |
| Start | RRR |
| Stop | BBB |
| Space | YYY |
1. Write the sentence using the beads, and then write the coded sentence in the space below.
2. How many beads did you use?
3. Assign one Pop-It® bead to represent each codon. You do not need to assign a Pop-It® bead for the start, stop and space regions. These will be your amino acids. Then, connect the Pop-It® beads to build the chain of amino acids that code for your sentence (leave out the start, stop, and space regions).
a. How many different amino acids did you use?
b. How many total amino acids did you use?