What Is the Most Significant Advantage of Using RNAi to Study

question 44

Multiple Choice

What is the most significant advantage of using RNAi to study development?

• A) Geneticists have only been able to identify a subset of the genes involved in development.
• B) Genetic studies on a single gene can be completed without the creation or isolation of new mutant organisms.
• C) RNA is easy to isolate.
• D) RNAi causes phenotypes not typical of in vivo development.
• E) RNAi always completely silences a single gene.

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