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Name the scientist who called tRNA an adapter molecule.

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Francis Crick called the tRAN as adaptor molecule because it attaches itself via initiation and elongation factors to the ribosome- mRNA complex which facilitates the incorporation of the correct amino acid to the growing polypeptide chain by its specific anticodon to the mRNA codon.

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