Your cells contain an amazing factory that builds the RNA and protein machines that keep you alive. Learn how this factory works and what the relationship is between DNA, RNA, and proteins.

Play the RNA Lab: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/rna/

Find discussion questions for this video and other resources in the RNA Lab collection on PBS LearningMedia: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvra.sci.prosynth/protein-synthesis/

CREDITS

Writer/Director/Producer Alex Rosenthal

2-D Animator Qa'ed Mai

3-D Animator Janet Iwasa

Narrator George Zaidan

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