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What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Answers should describe Figure 4.36 in the textbook where initiation involves a complex formation of the ribosome, initiation proteins, formylmethionine-tRNA, GTP, and mRNA. Elongation uses elongation factors, GTP, and tRNAs to extend a peptide, and termination occurs when release factors are recruited to a nonsense codon that breaks apart the tRNA and polypeptide to release the newly synthesized protein.

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