The antibiotics streptomycin and erythromycin function by inhibiting the function of ____ in

prokaryotes but not eukaryotes.



a. RNA polymerases
b. aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
c. spliceosomes
d. DNA polymerases
e. ribosomes


E

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