define endergonic and name a process it catalyses
driven by high energy phosphoanhydride bond cleavage
polymerisation
start codons sequence and other roles
AUG and GUG
may code for Met and Val
nonsense codons
stop codons
do not code for aa
UAG, UAA and UGA
variant arm on tRNA molecule
site of variability
sites of a tRNA molecule
acceptor stem
anticodon loop
what is tRNA charging
addition of amino acids to tRNA
what enzyme catalyses tRNA charging
aminoacyl-tRNA
process of tRNA charging
amino acid is activated
enzyme reacts with tRNA to form aa-tRNA