While examining the sequence of nucleotides in the replicon region of bacterial DNA, you note an abundance of adenine and thymine base pairs. This leads you to conclude that this particular section of the DNA must be the ________.

A. oriC site
B. Pribnow box
C. ter site
D. Shine-Dalgarno sequence


Answer: A

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