Imagine That Your Lab Is Synthesizing a New Type of Cell

question 46

Essay

Imagine that your lab is synthesizing a new type of cell. One of your colleagues suggests that your synthetic cell should use prokaryotic systems for all of the steps of gene expression (transcription and translation) because prokaryotic protein synthesis is faster than eukaryotic protein synthesis. List at least two characteristics of prokaryotic transcription and translation that make the overall process faster than in eukaryotes.

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