Fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin,are synthetic drugs that interfere with the action of DNA helicases. This means that ________.
A) the bacterial cell will die since it cannot replicate or transcribe its DNA
B) binary fission cannot take place because the cell cannot make proteins
C) the bacterial cell will die since it cannot take in nutrients across the cell membrane
D) the cell will die because it cannot make folic acid,which is a precursor to DNA and RNA,as well as amino acids
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