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(7) You work at a company that is using nanotechnology to build small machines. Your group's project is to build a tiny machine that can carry out translation of a protein without a ribosome. It seems to work! Your colleagues mix an mRNA and an abundance of charged tRNAs in a test tube full of the wee tiny translation machine. A protein product is generated. The correct amino acids are joined together in the correct order for this protein product, so there is no mutation or problem with the tRNAs. Yet, the protein product is nonfunctional At the next meeting of the research group, your boss turns to you. She says. "You're our geneticist. What might be missing in our system that is preventing the synthesized proteins from having an activity?" You have at least 5 ideas. You say... (5 points)