You are a reporter working in 2001 who's just been assigned a story on how ciprofloxacin may save the lives of Senate staff exposed to anthrax. Complete a short paragraph that links how DNADNA is replicated to defense against this act of bioterrorism.

Match the terms in the left column to the appropriate blanks in the sentences on the right. Terms can be used once, more than once, or not at all.

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ligase unwinding
relaxed enhances
inhibits uniting
gyrase join
helicase
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Bacterial DNA is a double-stranded helix that has to its strands during replication.

The of DNA strands at the replication fork creates twists farther down the helix that need to be by DNA .

Ciprofloxacin this enzyme to block DNA synthesis and stop the deadly bacteria from growing.