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Movement of ribosome from one codon to the other is called .

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translocation
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The correct option is A translocation
Ribosome attaches to the mRNA, reads the triplet codon and adds the amino acid to the chain and moves along the mRNA to read the next codon. This movement of ribosome is called translocation.

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