How Could You Identify Potential Riboswitches with Bioinformatics Tools

question 15

Multiple Choice

How could you identify potential riboswitches with bioinformatics tools?

• A) Advanced 3D modeling techniques of mRNA folding would be necessary because complementary nucleotide binding predictions would not be useful.
• B) Locate short regions of an individual transcript with several complementary sites.
• C) Identify homologous sRNAs in other organisms.
• D) Identify several complementary mRNAs encoded in the genome.

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