Practice question
Question
All of the following codons terminate protein biosynthesis EXCEPT:
Explanation
Standard termination codons UAA, UAG and UGA lack cognate tRNAs and recruit release factors to stop translation. UUA encodes leucine, recognized by tRNA-Leu, so does not terminate protein synthesis and is incorporated into growing polypeptide chain.
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