A mutant tRNA that recognizes a nonsense codon and inserts an amino acid where protein synthesis should have stopped is a(n)

A) nonsense tRNA.
B) nonsense suppressor tRNA.
C) revertant tRNA.
D) uncharged tRNA.


B) nonsense suppressor tRNA.

A mutant tRNA that recognizes a nonsense codon and inserts an amino acid where protein synthesis should have stopped is a nonsense suppressor tRNA.

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