Amanatin, a toxin from the death cap poisonous mushroom, inhibits RNA polymerase, so it

A. stops initiation, elongation, and termination stages of transcription.
B. reverses the direction of RNA polymerase action, tearing apart partially formed proteins.
C. prevents the initiator tRNA from beginning translation.
D. incorrectly places the release factor protein on mRNA and terminates translation.
E. disables any introns from being produced, to complete the protein structures.


A. stops initiation, elongation, and termination stages of transcription.

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