Question

Write a paragraph arguing that the non-mRNA RNAs involved in translation are more important than the proteins that are involved.

Answer 1

RNAs inolved during translation are important owing to reasons mentioned:

1. The tRNA for instance, is responsible for guiding and holding properly charged amino acids. It is the tRNA which serves as a platform for protein synthesis. Although the factors and enzymes involved do work in concert but they have a role to assist the polypeptide chain formation.

2. The rRNA component of ribosomes is involved in establishing complementary base pairing with m RNA and hence holding the entire machinery involved in place.

Moreover it is the rRNA that holds the ribosome intact, absence of it would not have held the entire ribosome intact.