Bio: Tricky wording - translation of RNA or DNA?

[A6project]

Soo, I took Topscore Natural Science part for the first time, and I did terrible. 😀 Guess I need to study smart and less wasting time from now on 😀

Anyways, this is a question that I got right but as i go over the exams, I start getting confused. The way this question is worded is pretty tricky.

Basically it states, "Find the process that mRNA codons are converted to a sequence of amino acids."

The ANS is "translation of RNA" It makes sense cuz you use mRNA to make amino aicd sequences(protein)

However, one of the ANS choices is "translation of DNA"

Could it be true too? cuz we start off using DNA to make mRNA and now we are making protein from mRNA but ultimately it is DNA that mRNA is from. So making protein is "translation of DNA".

Does it make sense to you?

Translation of DNA or RNA? hmmmm....

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[chitah831]

Soo, I took Topscore Natural Science part for the first time, and I did terrible. 😀 Guess I need to study smart and less wasting time from now on 😀

Anyways, this is a question that I got right but as i go over the exams, I start getting confused. The way this question is worded is pretty tricky.

Basically it states, "Find the process that mRNA codons are converted to a sequence of amino acids."

The ANS is "translation of RNA" It makes sense cuz you use mRNA to make amino aicd sequences(protein)

However, one of the ANS choices is "translation of DNA"

Could it be true too? cuz we start off using DNA to make mRNA and now we are making protein from mRNA but ultimately it is DNA that mRNA is from. So making protein is "translation of DNA".

Does it make sense to you?

Translation of DNA or RNA? hmmmm....

It would be translation of RNA. It's DNA ---- transCRIPTION ----> RNA ---- translation ----> Proteins. The way I remember it is from RNA to proteins it completely changes to something else like a translation. I hope that makes sense 🙂

 

[Jia7]

yes, ultimately the information comes from DNA. However the term translation is, as far as i know, specifically for the process of taking information from an RNA molecule to form a protein. So that choice will not be correct. If in the exam if translation of RNA wasn't a choice then maybe translation of DNA might be correct. But in this case I don't think so.

 

[Ibracadabra]

I see your point.. but in this one It's always the translation of mRNA(so RNA). You transcribe DNA 🙂 (of course, for reverse transcriptases... you transcribe RNA into DNA...)