A Major Difference Between the Sciences of Genetics and Genomics

question 9

Multiple Choice

A major difference between the sciences of genetics and genomics is

• A) the scale of the questions being asked.
• B) that genetics includes the study of DNA, whereas genomics does not.
• C) that genomics starts from totally new and different data.
• D) that genomics is the study of how genes are expressed in cells, whereas genetics is the study of expression within entire organisms.

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