Consider a Situation Where You Carry a 20-N Box Up

question 13

Short Answer

Consider a situation where you carry a 20-N box up a flight of stairs, raising its elevation by 5 m.
The increase of potential energy of the box is __________.

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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.