The Consequence to a Bacterial Cell of a Mutation That

question 46

Multiple Choice

The consequence to a bacterial cell of a mutation that inactivated the enzyme that methylates the A of the sequence GATC in newly made DNA would be

• A)failure to carry out replication
• B)failure to correct thymine dimers.
• C)failure to distinguish old and new DNA during mismatch repair.
• D)inactivation of certain metabolic genes.
• E)decrease in the mutation rate

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