When bacteria are infected by smaller microbes called viruses, the bacteria will stop making most of their proteins. Based on what you have learned this chapter, which of the following is most likely mechanism by which this occurs?
a. infection causes the bacteria's ribosomes to be destroyed
b. infection causes the bacteria's mRNA to be destroyed
c. infection stops bacteria from modifying (eg-splicing/editing) its mRNA
d. infection stops DNA polymerase from binding to promoters
e. infection causes RNA polymerase to bind to promoters
f. infection causes repressors to bind to the operator region of operons