In Bacteria,the Antibiotic Erythromycin Prevents Ribosomes from Functioning

In bacteria,the antibiotic erythromycin prevents ribosomes from functioning.The most likely reason that bacteria die from treatment with erythromycin is because the antibiotic

A) inhibits transcription.
B) inhibits translation.
C) causes the wrong bases to be added to the growing mRNA strand.
D) causes the wrong amino acids to be bound to the tRNA strands.

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