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. So it's not the DNA but it's the RNA molecules that is directly involved in the process of translation in the process of protein synthesis. Now, the entire sequence of DNA of any organism including the genes as well as the non coding regions of our DNA is known as the genome. And only a small percentage of the genome actually consists of the coding regions of the regions of nucleotides that code for proteins.