Question

The action of a new drug is unknown, so you test various aspects of eukaryotic cell processes looking for an effect. You notice that the survival of cells exposed to this drug is very low. Further analysis shows that some proteins and mRNAs are much longer than they should be. One hypothesis is that the drug interferes with ________.

Answer 1

The drug could be interfering with the transcription process.

Step-by-step explanation:

As seen with the analysis, if the length of mRNAs and proteins is altered it means that this drug, somehow, changes the replication process causing the mRNAs to be longer, and therefore translation is also altered making the proteins longer than they should be.