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why is tRNA called adapter molecule???

An adapter is a device that acts as a mediator between two systems that are not compatible similarly tRNA acts as an adpater which mediates the conversion of sequence of Nucleotides (mRNA) into sequence of amino acids (proteins).

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Because Crick believed that there must be an adapter molecule capable of mediating the translation of the RNA alphabet into the protein alphabet...that ended up being tRNA

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 tRNA is called adapter molecule because in one hand it reads the codes on mRNA and on the other hand it binds with specific amino acids.

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