L-canavanine can substitute for L-arginine during protein synthesis because it is an arginine homolog and can be charged by arginine tRNA synthetase.

“alkane avenin is an arginine homolog meaning that it is going to substitute for arginine on the trna okay and as we say it was suspected as a cause um l-can avenin can be charged by arginine trna synthetase to replace l-arginine during protein synthesis”