What Would Be the Best Way to Distinguish Between Two

question 51

Multiple Choice

What would be the best way to distinguish between two alleles and two genes?

• A) Examine the proteins they produce;most genes would produce very similar versions of the same protein,but two alleles would produce very different proteins.
• B) Examine the proteins they produce;a gene produces one protein,and an allele produces two different proteins.
• C) Examine their DNA;the DNA sequences of two different alleles would be more similar to each other than the sequences of two different genes.
• D) You can't distinguish between them;there's no actual difference between alleles and genes.
• E) Determine their chromosomal location;alleles will always be on different chromosomes,but genes will always be on different copies of the same chromosome.

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