Which of the following is the first event to take place in translation in eukaryotes?
a) base pairing of activated methionine-trna to aug of the messenger rna
b) binding of the larger ribosomal subunit to smaller ribosomal subunits
c) covalent bonding between the first two amino acids
d) the small subunit of the ribosome recognizes and attaches to the cap of mrna