A Defect in DNA Ligase Would Most Likely Result in

A defect in DNA ligase would most likely result in

A) normal replication, but gaps remaining in the sugar-phosphate DNA backbone.
B) failure to remove introns from the primary mRNA.
C) incompletely processed primary mRNA that does not get translated properly.
D) translation initiating normally but failing to proceed to elongation.
E) DNA strands separating normally but failing to join nucleotides in the growing nucleotide chain.