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Question

Biology Question on Cell: the unit of life

Larger subunit of 80S ribosome is

A

50S

B

40S

C

30S

D

60S

Answer

60S

Explanation

Solution

The 80S ribosome consists of a large 60S subunit and a small 40S subunit. The 60S subunit has three types of rRNA (28S, 5.8S and 5S) where as 40S has only one kind of rRNA(18S).