A Bacterial Cell Has a Nonsense Mutation That Prevents It

question 15

Multiple Choice

A bacterial cell has a nonsense mutation that prevents it from producing a functional sigma subunit for RNA polymerase.Inability to synthesize a functional sigma subunit would have the most direct effect on

• A)transcription initiation.
• B)transcription elongation.
• C)transcription termination.
• D)translation initiation.
• E)translation termination.

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