An isolate of a mutant bacterium appears to grow more slowly than the wild-type population 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.


Answer: A

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