A Defect in DNA Ligase Would Most Likely Cause

question 47

Multiple Choice

A defect in DNA ligase would most likely cause

• A) normal replication, but gaps remain in the sugar-phosphate DNA backbone.
• B) failure to remove introns from the primary mRNA.
• C) incompletely processed primary mRNA that does not get translated properly.
• D) translation to initiate normally, but fail to proceed to elongation.
• E) DNA strands to separate normally, but fail to join nucleotides in the growing nucleotide chain.

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