A New Antibiotic Is Developed That Interferes with the Way

question 42

Multiple Choice

A new antibiotic is developed that interferes with the way tRNA fits into bacterial ribosomes.How would this kill them?

• A)The bacteria would be unable to produce necessary enzymes to carry out basic metabolism.
• B)The tRNA would be unable to carry out transcription.
• C)Ribosomes will not be able to produce mRNA and cell functions will halt.
• D)tRNA would not unwind the DNA to allow DNA polymerase to copy it, thus cell division stops.

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