Match the part to its job

Exercise and reference answers

Matching pairs

1. Left

   Anticodon

   Right

   Three tRNA bases that read a codon

2. Left

   Release factor

   Right

   Ends translation at a stop codon

3. Left

   Shine Dalgarno

   Right

   Anchors the bacterial small subunit

4. Left

   A site

   Right

   Takes the incoming charged tRNA

5. Left

   P site

   Right

   Holds the growing polypeptide chain

6. Left

   E site

   Right

   Lets the empty tRNA leave

Instructions

Tap a part of the translation machinery, then tap what it does.

Explanation