KROK 1 2008 – Question 10 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A patient has low rate of magnesium ions that are necessary for affixion of ribosomes to the endoplasmic reticulum. It is known that it causes disturbance of protein biosynthesis. At what stage is protein biosynthesis impaired?
- A. Transcription
- B. Replication
- C. Amino acid activation
- D. Termination
- E. Translation
Hint
Think about the step in which ribosomes bind mRNA on the rough endoplasmic reticulum and join amino acids into a polypeptide chain.
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