mahendra
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A mutation that causes the loss of the 3’ , 5’
exonuclease activity of DNA-dependent DNA
polymerase is most likely to also cause Escherichia coli
to have problems with which cellular process?
(A) Replacing misincorporated bases
(B) Segregating sister chromosomes
(C) Supercoiling of DNA
(D) Synthesizing an RNA primer
(E) Transferring DNA strands during
conjugation
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| asmi
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E :?:
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| step1taker
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A.
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| Idiopathic
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Yes, A...the 3'-5' activity is exonucleatic.
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| leftfoot
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yup..its A.
3'5' exonuclease takes out the 'wrong bases' incorporated due to misreading.
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