Answer: c. will be transcribed by RNA polymerase to produce the GFP mRNA. The GFP mRNA will be translated by ribosomes to produce the GFP protein, which will glow bright fluorescent green color under UV light
Explanation:
<u>A gene is a sequence of DNA, which encodes for a protein.</u> DNA is made up of nucleotides and ther are four types: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C). The order of these bases determines which protein will we produced.
To synthesize the protein, first the gene in the DNA must be transcribed to mRNA by action of the RNA polymerase that uses the DNA strand as a template to copy its bases and form a complementary RNA strand.
Then, the translation process occurs. This occurs in ribosomes, where each RNA codon (set of three bases) codes for an amino acid. That's how a protein is synthesized.
<u>GFP is a Green fluorescent protein which is used to tag proteins and to study many cellular processes in cells. </u>This protein has a green color which fluoridates under UV light. This can be seen for example under a fluorescence microscope to detect the location of the protein in the cell.
