Sentences with phrase «cellular factories called»

They all use RNA molecules as messengers to transfer the information from DNA to cellular factories called ribosomes, which then build proteins, which in turn drive our metabolisms and form the structures of our cells.

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To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

This association of the RNAi machinery and a gene's message is prelude to destruction of the message before it arrives at a cellular protein factory called the ribosome.

In the current paper, the shapes are made up of strut - reinforced tripods, which assemble themselves from individual DNA strands in a process called â $ œDNA origami.â $ Already, at 5 megadaltons, each tripod is more massive than the largest known single protein (titin, involved in muscle contraction) and more massive than a ribosome, one of the cellular factories in which proteins are made.

You have trillions of little energy factories that are cellular organelles called mitochondria that help your body run.