1. A Story About Cakes Joe Wright Portsmouth College

2. 1. A Cake Factory

3. 2. Inside his office Mr Kipling writes his recipe Crunchy Frog? Anthrax Ripple?

4. 3. To make sure the recipe isn’t lost or tampered with, he photocopies it to go to the kitchen

5. 4. The photocopied recipe is delivered to the chefs

6. 5. The chefs use the recipe to make the cakes, they have all the ingredients they need

7. 6. Some of the cakes are eaten by tasters in the factory

8. 7. Some of the cakes are transported out of the factory for everybody else to eat

9. Comparison Cake FactoryProtein Synthesis Factory Cell Recipe Nucleus Photocopying Recipe Translation Photocopy of recipemRNA Chef Ribosome Ingredients Amino acids CakesProteins TastersCell using its own proteins Trucks Cell secreting proteins e.g. enzymes (exocytosis) Making the cakes Transcription Mr Kipling’s Office DNA

10. How has Protein Synthesis Been Exploited?