Your Friend Paulo Was in a Car Crash and When

question 74

Multiple Choice

Your friend Paulo was in a car crash and when you asked him what happened he could not remember anything at all about the crash. Rather than amnesia, Paulo could be displaying

• A)interference
• B)decay
• C)proactive memory loss
• D)repression
• E)retroactive memory loss

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Definitions:

Stop Codon

A nucleotide triplet within mRNA that signals the termination of protein synthesis during translation.

Protein Synthesis

The biological process by which cells generate new proteins, translating genetic information from RNA into the amino acid sequence of proteins.

Initiation

The beginning or start of a process, event, or activity.

Elongation

Elongation in biology refers to the lengthening of structures or molecules, such as the growth of plant roots or the process during protein synthesis where the polypeptide chain is extended.