[userbinator]

attachment to the ribosome during translation

There's been a lot of analogies with NOP slides in the comments here and there, but if you look at how the process of reading the genome works, this section is more like the leader/trailer on a tape:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leader#Noun "A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trailer#Noun "A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector."

[worewood]

And this fits nicely because the genome replication really looks like a roll of film being played

[kevviiinn]

Only if the film gets bent and twisted around itself, binding on itself to activate or deactivate sequences and with the read film actively getting spliced to create slightly different versions of the scenes

Honestly it's fuckin wild, there's a lot going on rather than just linear read->express