The central dogma explains that once hereditary information is “packaged” into a protein, it cannot be released. Thus, transfer is dogmatically unidirectional – from one nucleic acid (DNA) to another nucleic acid (RNA) and/or from nucleic acid (RNA) to protein is possible, but from protein to protein or from protein back to nucleic acid is not possible (1).
Central dogma
Sources
(1) Crick F. H. (1958). "On Protein Synthesis". In F. K. Sanders (ed.). Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, Number XII: The Biological Replication of Macromolecules. Cambridge University Press. pp. 138–163. [cit. 01-22-2025].
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