In plant cells, the 'Wobble hypothesis' explains why:
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Correct answer: One tRNA can recognize more than one codon.
Proposed by Francis Crick, the wobble hypothesis states that the base at the 5' end of the anticodon is not as spatially confined as the other two. This allows non-standard base pairing with the 3' base of the codon.
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