An Isolate of a Mutant Bacterium Appears to Grow More

question 43

Multiple Choice

An isolate of a mutant bacterium appears to grow more slowly than the population (wild type) from which it was isolated.Further studies showed that the slower growth was due to a markedly reduced DNA polymerase I activity.From this information,one would expect that this organism would also be deficient in the activity of DNA

• A)excision repair.
• B)recombination.
• C)transcription.
• D)translation.
• E)unwinding.

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