A bacterial cell has a nonsense mutation that prevents it from producing a functional sigma subunit for RNA polymerase. Inability to synthesize a functional sigma subunit would have the most direct effect on
A. translation termination.
B. translation initiation.
C. transcription termination.
D. transcription initiation.
E. transcription elongation.
Answer: D
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