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 Protein Synthesis
Factory Cell
Mr Kipling’s Office Nucleus
Recipe DNA
Photocopying Recipe Transcription
Photocopy of recipe mRNA
Chef Ribosome
Ingredients Amino acids
Making the cakes Translation
Cakes Proteins
Tasters Cell using its own proteins
Trucks Cell secreting proteins e.g.
enzymes (exocytosis)
How has Protein Synthesis Been
Exploited?