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 promoter region
C) DNase activity
D) RNA polymerase II activity
E) ribosomal binding


B) recognition of the promoter region

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