Creation Moment 6/15/2026 - The central dogma of molecular biology

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 139:14

"James Watson and Francis Crick only identified the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, yet this discovery stimulated an explosion of research into how information is stored and used within our cells.

At its core, this research focuses on a statement known as “the central dogma of molecular biology,” which explains how genetic information flows from being stored in the DNA to actually being used by a cell. 

Simply put, the central dogma states that genetic information starts out as strands of DNA in the cell’s nucleus, is first copied (transcribed) into complementary ribonucleic acid (RNA), and is

then transported to the cell’s ribosomes to be translated into the amino acids that are used in protein formation and function. 

This process continuously occurs for the approximately 19,000–20,000 protein-coding genes found in the human body. Through this process of gene expression, the information stored in the genes becomes actively useful for the organism." 

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