An environmental change leads a cell to start making proteins at high rates.Which scenario would be the most likely mechanism?

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When a cell is producing proteins at a high rate due to an environmental change, it will likely have increased numbers of polysomes, which are multiple ribosomes translating a single mRNA at the same time. This allows for efficient and rapid synthesis of proteins. Accumulation of free ribosomes or ribosomal subunits would not necessarily lead to increased protein synthesis, and having mostly a single ribosome associated with each mRNA would not be efficient for high rates of protein production. The wobble effect refers to the flexibility in base pairing at the third position of a codon and is not directly related to protein synthesis rates.

An Environmental Change Leads a Cell to Start Making Proteins