In bacteria, the antibiotic tetracycline blocks the site where tRNA molecules enter the ribosome. Bacteria die from treatment with tetracycline because the antibiotic
A) inhibits the cell from producing the mRNA.
B) causes the tRNA molecules randomly arrange into proteins that do not function.
C) causes tRNA rather than mRNA to be made into proteins.
D) prevents the bacteria from assembling essential proteins.
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