When Does the Average American Become the Most Informed of the Inner

question 8

Multiple Choice

When does the average American become the most informed of the inner workings of the federal bureaucracy?

• A) during election season
• B) during the start of each new presidential term
• C) during and following a major crisis or catastrophe
• D) following the end of a congressional session

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Definitions:

Initiation

First stage of translation in which the translational machinery binds an mRNA and assembles.

Elongation

Middle stage of translation in which additional amino acids specified by the mRNA are added to the growing polypeptide.

Termination

End of translation that occurs when a ribosome reaches a stop codon on the mRNA that it is translating, causing release of the completed protein.

Translation

The process in which cellular ribosomes create proteins, decoding the information contained in messenger RNA.