The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
The central dogma of molecular biology summarizes the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA, and from RNA to protein. This interactive infographic explores this concept by examining examples of genotypes and phenotypes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Topics
- ABC-type guanine transporter
- abdominal segments
- allele
- allele combination
- amino acids
- amino acid sequence
- Antennapedia
- Antp
- bar
- bar-eye phenotype
- black
- central dogma
- chromosome
- chromosome 2
- chromosome 3
- diploid
- diploid organism
- DNA
- DNA sequence
- dominant
- Drosophila
- Drosophila melanogaster
- eye color
- eye pigments
- fruit fly
- fruit fly body color
- fruit fly body shape
- gene
- genetic information
- genotype
- messenger RNA
- mRNA
- mRNA sequence
- mt
- mutant
- mutant genotype
- mutant phenotype
- mutation
- normal abdomen
- offspring
- O-mannosyltransferase
- phenotype
- protein
- protein function
- recessive
- red
- red-eye color phenotype
- rotated abdomen
- round
- rounded
- RNA
- rt
- sex chromosome
- tan
- traits
- transcription
- translation
- variant
- variant phenotype
- vestigial
- vestigial protein
- vestigial wings
- vg
- Vg protein
- wg
- white
- white (w)
- white eyes
- white-eye color phenotype
- wild-type
- wild-type genotype
- wild-type phenotype
- wingless
- wing shape
- wing phenotype
- wt
- X chromosome