Transgenic Animals Are Valuable in the Study of Human Diseases

question 8

Multiple Choice

Transgenic animals are valuable in the study of human diseases for which of the following reasons?

• A) They can manifest the same symptoms as human diseases.
• B) They can be used to study the development and progress of human diseases.
• C) They can be used to test drugs on.
• D) They can be cloned and thus have identical genomes.
• E) All of these are reasons why transgenic animals are valuable in the study of human diseases.

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