If you were designing a method to specifically inhibit prokaryotic transcription, but not eukaryotic transcription, interfering with which of the following would work best?

A) an intercalating agent
B) recognition of the prokaryotic promoter by RNA polymerase
C) DNase activity
D) RNA polymerase II activity
E) ribosomal binding to mRNA


Answer: B

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