It Can Be Difficult for Bacteria to Produce Functional Eukaryotic

question 36

Multiple Choice

It can be difficult for bacteria to produce functional eukaryotic proteins even when all the components necessary for gene expression are present because .

• A) eukaryotes do not use the Shine-Dalgarno sequence
• B) many eukaryotic proteins must be post-translationally modified
• C) of the size difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic ribosomes
• D) of differences in the prokaryotic and eukaryotic genetic codes

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