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.
A) excision repair.
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