Question

In an experiment you wrongly added Rifampicin antibiotic to Rifampicin sensitive bacteria. You try to correct your mistake by adding more core subunits (resistant to Rifampicin) to your mixture. What would you expect to see?

a.

Normal transcription to restart

b.

Transcription will restart but it will be non-specific as you added core enzyme

c.

Impaired transcription with more abortive transcripts

d.

No transcription

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Answer: (a).Normal transcription to restart

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