Which of the following best explains the inability of bacteria to correctly express the protein products of plasmid containing an unmodified mammalian gene?
A) prokaryotes use a different genetic code from that of eukaryotes
B) bacteria translate only mRNAs that have multiple messages
C) bacteria cannot remove eukaryotic introns
D) bacterial RNA polymerase cannot make RNA complementary to mammalian DNA

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Bacteria lack the machinery to remove introns from eukaryotic pre-mRNA, a process essential for creating a mature mRNA that can be translated into a functional protein.

Which of the Following Best Explains the Inability of Bacteria