All of the following are true about translation EXCEPT _____.     as the ribosome moves from codon to codon, amino acids brought by successive tRNAs to the ribosome form a growing polypeptide     when the ribosome reaches a stop codon, its subunits detach, and the mRNA and new polypeptide are released     RNA polymerase assembles a strand of mRNA complementary to the coding strand of DNA     Ribosomal subunits and a tRNA-carrying methionine converge on the start codon of an mRNA

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Problem 3C: A certain mRNA strand has the following nucleotide sequence: 5AUGACGUAUAACUUU3 What is the anticodon...
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All of the following are true about translation EXCEPT _____.

   

as the ribosome moves from codon to codon, amino acids brought by successive tRNAs to the ribosome form a growing polypeptide

   

when the ribosome reaches a stop codon, its subunits detach, and the mRNA and new polypeptide are released

   

RNA polymerase assembles a strand of mRNA complementary to the coding strand of DNA

   

Ribosomal subunits and a tRNA-carrying methionine converge on the start codon of an mRNA

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