What do genes do?

# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand how the linear sequence of DNA within a gene is related to the linear sequence of amino acids of a protein
- understand how the information in DNA is carried via RNA to make a protein
- understand how RNA is synthesised from DNA by the process of transcription
- understand where the processes of transcription and translation occur within the cell.

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