KROK 1 2009 – Question 14 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A patient’s organism has decreased concentration of magnesium ions that are necessary for attachment of ribosomes to the granular endoplasmatic reticulum. It is known that this causes protein biosynthesis disturbance. What stage of protein biosynthesis will be disturbed?
- A. Termination
- B. Amino acid activation
- C. Translation
- D. Replication
- E. Transcription
Hint
Think about which stage of protein biosynthesis cannot proceed normally when ribosomes fail to assemble properly on the membrane-bound mRNA.
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