Dane Sigua/Getty Images. When visiting Hawaii, you'll encounter many foods that may seem foreign to you. This is because Hawaii is a melting pot of cultures from around the world, with influences from the Chinese, Filipino, native Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Samoan, Thai, Vietnamese and others.ane Sigua/Getty Images. When visiting Hawaii, you'll encounter many foods that may seem foreign to you. This is because Hawaii is a melting pot of cultures from around the world, with influences from the Chinese, Filipino, native Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Samoan, Thai, Vietnamese and others.
The information in DNA is not directly converted into proteins, but must first be copied into RNA. DNA transcription is the process in protein synthesis that involves the transcribing of genetic information from DNA to RNA.
DNA is the molecule that encodes the genetic instructions enabling a cell to produce the thousands of proteins it typically needs. The linear sequence of the A, T, C, and G bases in what is called coding DNA determines the particular protein that a short segment of DNA, known as a gene, will encode. But in many organisms, there is much more DNA in a cell than is needed to code for all the necessary proteins. This non-coding DNA was often referred to as junk DNA because it seemed unnecessary. But in retrospect, we did not yet understand the function of these seemingly unnecessary DNA sequences. We now know that non-coding DNA can have important functions other than encoding proteins.