A cell may meet the need for large quantities of a specific protein by all of the following EXCEPT :

a. continuously synthesizing the mRNA molecule that specifies that protein.
b. increasing the half-life of the mRNA that specifies the protein.
c. having multiple copies of the gene that codes for that protein.
d. amplifying protein genes by DNA replication
e. inhibition of DNA synthesis


E

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