Transcript A Story About Cakes

A Story About Cakes
Joe Wright Portsmouth College
1. A Cake Factory
2. Inside his office Mr Kipling writes
his recipe
Crunchy Frog?
Anthrax
Ripple?
3. To make sure the recipe isn’t lost or
tampered with, he photocopies it to go
to the kitchen
4. The photocopied recipe is delivered
to the chefs
5. The chefs use the recipe to make the
cakes, they have all the ingredients
they need
6. Some of the cakes are eaten by
tasters in the factory
7. Some of the cakes are transported
out of the factory for everybody else to
eat
Comparison
Cake Factory
Factory
Mr Kipling’s Office
Recipe
Photocopying Recipe
Photocopy of recipe
Chef
Ingredients
Making the cakes
Protein Synthesis
Cell
Nucleus
DNA
Transcription
mRNA
Ribosome
Amino acids
Translation
Cakes
Proteins
Tasters
Cell using its own proteins
Trucks
Cell secreting proteins e.g.
enzymes (exocytosis)
How has Protein Synthesis Been
Exploited?