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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2013

At the stage of translation in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, the ribosome moves along the mRNA. Amino acids are joined together by peptide bonds in a specific sequence, and thus polypeptide synthesis takes place. The sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide corresponds to the sequence of:

Answer options

  1. tRNA nucleotides
  2. tRNA anticodons
  3. mRNA codons
  4. rRNA anticodons
  5. rRNA nucleotides
Correct answer

mRNA codons

Explanation

The sequence of amino acids always corresponds to mRNA codons which consist of 4 bases including uracil, cytosine, guanine, and adenine.

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