OK, AFTER I said I understood the basics, that was pretty insulting.
What I'm TRYING to get at is how and what happens when a molecule in DNA in a gene is altered. I'm trying to understand the mechanics of the event. I guess I will have to dig deeper into the websites I thought were too complex.
Not intended that way at all. I wasn't assuming you knew less than you said. But was trying to cover the whole audience. Ego much? Yes, you have a very health ego ;-)
Protein synthesis is complicated. RNA, amino acids, all that. The expression part at the gene level (via RNA) is way complicated. Magic really. Topology of coiled DNA (it doesn't unroll except at cell division). Don't pay attention to what that molecule is doing, the one you aren't paying attention to is sawing the lady chromosome in half. So no, I don't have an easier way to summarize at THAT level. I simplified because I had to. PhD level shit. One chromosome, unrolled is 2 inches long. Coiled up like a phone cord from hell, it is tiny enough to fit in the nuclear part of a cell. Crazy shit. How many nuceotides is that? About 250 million base pairs. And there are 46 of them.