Biology hw help plzz?

Question

There is a stop codon to signal the end of an amino acid chain. Why is it important that a signal to stop translation be part of protein synthesis?

Answer 1

Stop codons signal the end of translation and release from the ribosome. There are protein release factors that are codon specific.

http://www.genestocellsonline.org/cgi/co...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14651...