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12. If an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase attaches the wrong amino acid to a tRNA, what will happen? O The tRNA wont fold into the

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there are several mechanisms that ensure that only correct amino acid should be attached to tRNA but if an incorrect amino acid is added to tRNA there is no way to prevent its incorporation in the polypeptide. Since the anticodon is correct it will base pair with the codon in mRNA and you will have a peptide with wrong amino acid incorporated.

Hence option D is right

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