An Isolate of a Mutant Bacterium Appears to Grow More

Multiple Choice

An isolate of a mutant bacterium appears to grow more slowly than the population (wild type) from which it was isolated.Further studies showed that the slower growth was due to a markedly reduced DNA polymerase I activity.From this information,one would expect that this organism would also be deficient in the activity of DNA

A) excision repair.
B) recombination.
C) transcription.
D) translation.
E) unwinding.