The basilar membrane is relatively permeable to perilymph in the scala tympani, and tunnel of the organ of Corti and the bases of the hair cells are bathed in perilymph

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Size comparisons show that the ribosome is large enough to bind tRNAs and mRNA.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Aminoacyl-tRNA Formation Is Very Accurate, the frequency of mischarging is very low; typically, less than 1 in 1000 tRNAs is charged with the incorrect amino acid.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Valyl-tRNA synthetase can sterically exclude isoleucine from its catalytic pocket because isoleucine is larger than valine.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

The protein-coding region(s) of each mRNA is composed of a contiguous, non-overlapping string of codons called an open reading frame (commonly known as an ORF).

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Translation starts at the 5’end of the ORF and proceeds one codon at a time to the 3’end. The first and last codons of an ORF are known as the start and stop codons.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

mRNAs containing multiple ORFs are known as polycistronic mRNAs, and those encoding a single ORF are known as monocistronic mRNAs.