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You want to study ribosomes in plant cells and plan to use aprotocol based on ultracentrifugation in cesium chloride (CsCl) inorder to isolate these structures. What do you expect tofind?
   A.  
Only 70S ribosomes
    B.  
Both 70 and 80S ribosomes
    C.  
Plants are boring
    D.  
Only 80S ribosomes

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Answer B both 70S and 80S Explanation Ribosomes are complexes of RNA and proteins which perform the function of protein synthesis 70S S stands for Svedberg units ribosome is a characteristic of prokaryotes which has two subunits    See Answer
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