Wednesday, 24 March 2021

RNA Rain

Anywhere there are gaps in my knowledge, my imagination will close it up; Every spring season I think about DNA and all the things that are connected to it. I don't know the details of DNA and functions that are connected to it so my imagination steps in. Recently I imagined RNA raining inside a cell and I drew my thoughts to expose my ignorance to correction and reasoning from the global community or an aged version of myself in the future. 
In this picture, thousands of RNA strands are chaotically spurting out of a cell nucleus like rain drops from a cloud. In the bottom of a sketch, a protein machine that makes proteins has snagged a strand of RNA and started to read it; that particular strand of RNA doesn't encode Proteins so when in is fed through, nothing happens, the strand tells another machine to wait 3 days before reading the DNA again. The potato shaped protein machine can't see so it has to feed through every RNA strand one at a time until it finds codes that are relevant to it. Another protein machine in the distance has found the correct RNA strand with the code for making protein, it detected the code set to start making proteins and is reading the markers three at a time and grabbing amino acids and making an amino acid strand that folds itself into a protein. 

Is this picture accurate or is the RNA processing function in all cells more orderly? Do protein machines read RNA commands that are wrong or do they instantly detect they are wrong before they are read? 
RNA is a representation of one half of the DNA molecule, it represents a gene sequence and is used as a command set to control the machinery of the cell. 


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