In the First Step of Their Experiments, Jacob and Monod

question 29

Multiple Choice

In the first step of their experiments, Jacob and Monod treated E. coli cells with ultraviolet light or X-rays to ________.

• A) decrease the rate of gene expression
• B) induce DNA repair enzymes
• C) increase the frequency of mutations in all genes
• D) selectively mutate the lac operon, leaving all other genes unmutated

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Definitions:

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