The Consequence to a Bacterial Cell of a Mutation That

Multiple Choice

The consequence to a bacterial cell of a mutation that inactivated the enzyme that methylates the A of the sequence GATC in newly made DNA would be

A) failure to carry out replication
B) failure to correct thymine dimers.
C) failure to distinguish old and new DNA during mismatch repair.
D) inactivation of certain metabolic genes.
E) decrease in the mutation rate