The chemical cochicine, from a flowering plant, blocks the building of tubulin proteins into microtubules. This would cause cell damage by

A) reducing the production of ATP that the cell can make.
B) blocking cell division.
C) reducing cell transport.
D) inhibiting DNA replication.
E) inhibiting lipid production.


B) blocking cell division.

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