What causes mRNA translation to stop?

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ALEXIS C.
Mar 22, 2018

The translation is stopped when the ribosome reaches a stop codon

Explanation:

UAA,UAG,UGA.When a stop codon is reached then instead of an amino acid,a termination factor comes and binds to this codon.This causes the dislodging of the ribosome from the mRNA and translation is stopped.

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