Over 100 Microbial Genomes Have Been Sequenced; Beyond Yielding Insight

question 9

Multiple Choice

Over 100 microbial genomes have been sequenced; beyond yielding insight into microbial genomes,these sequencing projects have been important because:

• A) they developed the techniques that allowed for the Human Genome Project
• B) knowing how many chromosomes a microbe has lets us know if it causes disease
• C) without the sequence of the genome we can not tell what the organism uses as its genetic material
• D) it demonstrated that microorganisms do not cause infectious diseases.

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