The central dogma of molecular biology tells us that the flow of genetic information in all living cells, including our own human cells, is from DNA to RNA to proteins. Now, what we mean by that is if our cell wants to actually synthesize proteins, it must first take that DNA molecule and copy the gene, the genetic information found in in the gene into the RNA molecule. And what this does is it essentially makes a copy of that genetic information via a process known as transcription. Now, it's not too difficult to actually imagine how transcription takes place because both DNA molecules and RNA molecules use the same exact language. They consist of the same exact monomers we call nucleotides. Now, when we go from RNA to proteins, things are a bit more complicated.