During protein synthesis, amino acids are added to the C-terminus of a protein through a process called elongation. This involves the ribosome reading the mRNA codons and matching them with tRNA molecules carrying specific amino acids. The tRNA molecules bring the amino acids to the ribosome, where they are linked together in a specific order to form the protein chain. The addition of each amino acid to the growing protein chain occurs at the C-terminus, which is the end of the protein being synthesized.
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