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This document provides questions and answers about the process of translation in protein synthesis. It asks about the nucleotide bases in tRNA and mRNA, the role of codons and how they are recognized by tRNA anticodons to bring the correct amino acid. The stop codon signals the end of translation, resembling how a construction worker brings materials to build until the job is finished.

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This document provides questions and answers about the process of translation in protein synthesis. It asks about the nucleotide bases in tRNA and mRNA, the role of codons and how they are recognized by tRNA anticodons to bring the correct amino acid. The stop codon signals the end of translation, resembling how a construction worker brings materials to build until the job is finished.

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Objectives:
1. Make a model of the translation process
2. Simulate the steps in translation
Guide Questions:
Q1. What are the four nucleotide bases present in tRNA? Do these bases
differ from those found in mRNA?
Q2. What base in mRNA can only join with the adenine base of RNA?
with the uracil base of tRNA?
Q3. What is a codon? What does it represent?
Q4. What is the role of tRNA in protein synthesis?
Q5. How does a tRNA molecule carrying its amino acid recognize which
codon to attach?
Q6. You have learned that there is a stop codon that signals the end of an
amino acid chain. Why is it important that a stop codon be part of protein
synthesis?
Q7. A construction worker brings hollow blocks to build a wall. What part
of translation resembles the construction workers job?
Answers:
1. The four nucleotide bases present in tRNA are adenine, uracil, guanine
and cytosine.
2. Adenine pairs with uracil and vice versa is the base in mRNA that can
only join with the adenine base of RNA.
3. Codon is a sequence of three nucleotides that together form a unit of
genetic code in a DNA or RNA molecule. It represents the code for a
specific amino acid.
4. The role of tRNA in protein synthesis is to decode a specific codon of
mRNA using its anticodon to transfer RNA brings an amino acid in the
cytoplasm to the ribosomes.
5. During translation, tRNA molecules first match up with the amino acids
that fit their attachment sites. Then, the tRNAs carry their amino acids

toward the mRNA strand. They pair onto the mRNA by way of an
anticodon on the opposite side of the molecule. Each anticodon on
tRNA matches up with a codon on the mRNA.
6. Stop codon is important to be part of protein synthesis because it is
important because it marks the end of the translation.
7. The job of the construction workers resembles the function of T-rna
that brings amino acid to the codon of M-rna, while hollow blocks
represents the amino acids.

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