Experiment 2: Transcription and Translation 1. Use a pen orpencil to write a five word sentence using no more than eightdifferent letters in the space below. 2. Now, use the red, blue,green, and yellow beads to form “codons” (three beads) for eachletter in your sentence. Then, create codons to represent the“start, “space” and stop” regions within your sentence. Write thesentence using the beads in the space below: 3. How many beads didyou use? 4. Assign one Pop-It® bead to represent each codon. You donot need to assign a Pop-It® bead for the start, stop and spaceregions. These will be your amino acids. 5. Connect the Pop-It®beads to build the chain of amino acids that code for your sentence(leave out the start, stop, and space regions). 6. How manydifferent amino acids did you use? 7. How many total amino acidsdid you use?
