If you were designing a method to specifically inhibit prokaryotic transcription,but not eukaryotic transcription,interfering with which of the following would work best?
A)an intercalating agent
B)recognition of the promoter region
C)DNase activity
D)RNA polymerase II activity
E)ribosomal binding

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Prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription differ in the way promoters are recognized. Prokaryotic promoters are recognized by sigma factors while eukaryotic promoters are recognized by general transcription factors. Therefore, interfering with the recognition of the prokaryotic promoter region would be a specific way to inhibit prokaryotic transcription without affecting eukaryotic transcription. Intercalating agents, DNase activity, RNA polymerase II activity, and ribosomal binding would affect both prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription.

If You Were Designing a Method to Specifically Inhibit Prokaryotic