The pieces of cereal represent the 4 bases in DNA, Guanine (G) = purple cereal, Cytosine (C) = pink cereal, Adenine (A) = green cereal, Thymine (T)= yellow cereal. When put into codons, they represent the 20 amino acids and a letter of our alphabet. Since there are more letters than amino acids, some codons just represented a letter and not an amino acid. My entire message represented my last name which is Hrycan. It represented the following amino acids which are Histidine, Arginine, Tyrosine, Cysteine, Alanine, and Asparagine in that order. The codon was cat, cgt, tac, tgc, gct, and aac in that order. To get the instructions of DNA to the ribosomes outside of the nucleus, messenger RNA is made. Messenger RNA is a short strand of genetic information that carries the instructions from one gene on DNA. mRNA is short enough to fit through the pores in the nuclear membrane. The ribosome holds onto the mRNA, reads the instructions and links together amino acids (protein building blocks).