In E. coli, the insertion of the amino acid selenocysteine into a polypeptide requires
a. a unique type of ribosome.
b. a unique type of tRNA.
c. programmed frameshifting during translation.
d. use of a thymine in the mRNA codon.
e. RNA editing.
Ans: b
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