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How Does a Nonsense Suppressor Mutation Prevent Amber Mutants from Terminating

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How does a nonsense suppressor mutation prevent amber mutants from terminating their polypeptides prematurely?


A) The mutation turns the amber codon back into a wild-type codon.
B) The mutation alters a tRNA so that it reads the amber codon and inserts an amino acid.
C) The mutation alters the release factors that would halt synthesis.
D) The mutation results in a wobble that allows synthesis to continue.
E) The mutation replaces the amber codon with an ochre codon.

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