Rubric

Total marks 25

 TRANSCRIPTION (10 marks)

 Show RNA polymerase (1mark)

 Promoter region (1mark)

 Supercoiled nature of DNA (1mark)

 Direction DNA is read in (1mark)

 Direction mRNA is synthesized (1mark)

 Anti-parallel nature of DNA strands (1mark)

 Exons and Introns (1mark)

 Pre-mRNA and mRNA (1mark)

 Poly A tail (1mark)

 Finished mRNA leaving the nucleus. (1mark)

TRANSLATION (9 marks)

 The nucleus of the cell (1 mark)

 Transfer RNA's with the triplicate code on their surface (1 mark)

 Amino acids floating in the cytoplasm and bonding to specific tRNA's (1 mark)

 A protein chain being formed (1 mark)

 Direction of mRNA being read (1mark)

 A ribosome showing how it translates the code of the mRNA into a protein. (1 mark)

 Reveal how the tRNA binds to the codon on the mRNA at the ribosome.  (1 mark)

 The correlation between the codon sequence on the mRNA and the amino acid sequence on the protein chain.(2 marks)

APPEARANCE  (6marks)

 High: Easy to read and all elements are clearly written, labelled, and drawn. A great deal of effort and times was clearly put into the comic. (6 marks)

 Med: The comic is easy to read and most elements are clearly written, labelled, or drawn. However parts of it seemed rushed and incomplete (4marks)

 Low: The comic is hard to read and poorly constructed. It is clear very little effort was made. (2marks)

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 Rubric

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