First, let's discuss several other important points. So the central dogma of molecular genetics is basically a concept that tells us that the flow of genetic information in any cell goes from the DNA molecule to the RNA molecule to the protein. Now, any given DNA molecule in any given organism consists of genes and genes are basically specific sequences of nucleotides that code for proteins. Now, even though DNA molecules contain genes DNA molecules themselves are not directly used in protein synthesis. What happens is our DNA molecules, the genes in DNA molecules are transcribed into RNA molecules. So we basically transfer the genetic information from our DNA to our RNA and then those RNA molecules are used by ribosomes to basically form our proteins by using the genetic code as we'll see in just a moment.