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Why tRNA is called as adapter molecule?

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tRNA is called and adaptor molecule because of the following reasons.
(i) The molecule of tRNA acts as vehicle to pick up amino acids scattered in the cytoplasm.
(ii) It reads specific codes of mRNA molecules.
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