Controlling the rates of transcription and translation is important in bacteria to avoid collisions between ribosomes and rna po
lymerases. calculate what the maximum rate of translation by a ribosome in a bacterial cell would have to be, in units of amino acids per second, so as not to overtake an rna polymerase that is transcribing mrna at a rate of 60 nucleotides per second.
Transcription is a mechanism for synthesizing RNA from DNA.
Translation is a mechanism for synthesizing a polypeptide sequence from mRNA by converting the nucleotide triplet (codons) to amino acids.
So if one amino acid corresponds to three nucleotides. The polypeptide synthesis rate should be 20 amino acids per second for 60 nucleotides per second.
you have potential energy when you're stopped. you have kinetic energy when you're moving. so as you're going down a hill, kinetic energy is increasing and potential energy is decreasing.
