Translation (The Specifics)

Audra Brown WardMarist School

Atlanta, Georgiawarda@marist.com

Instructions:

1. Be sure to print each different component on a different color paper; for instance, codons should be all in one color. Each amino acid should be a different color.

2. Be sure to laminate everything! 3. To make peptide bonds, just cut sheets of white

cardstock into thirds or fourths, laminate them and attach velcro to them to attach to amino acids.

4. Don’t forget to have codon charts available!5. Make enough amino acids so that each student

gets to be a “tRNA” at least once.

UAA

AUG

UUU

CUU

AUU

GUA

UCG

CCA

ACC

GCA

UAU

CAC

CAA

AAC

AAA

GAU

GAG

UGU

UGG

CGA

GGC

Glutamic Acid

Asparagine

Lysine

Aspartic Acid

Cysteine

Tryptophan

Arginine

Glycine

Alanine

Tyrosine

Histidine

Valine

Serine

Proline

Threonine

Phenylalanine

Leucine

Isoleucine

Glutamine

Methionine