ELI5, if DNA codes for proteins, how is stuff like lipids and carbohydrates made?
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DNA encodes for proteins, which are little molecular machines that perform all of the tasks needed to keep you alive. Some of the tasks performed include the steps necessary to synthesize both lipids and carbohydrates. Making a molecule like that isn’t the job of a single protein, but rather is the result of many different proteins working together, not unlike an assembly line! Other proteins will also help to fuse those parts together when required, making things like glycolipids and glycoproteins. Sometimes big combinations are made using all three classes of molecules configured together!
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