The Whole-Genome Shotgun Approach Is Useful for Sequencing Small Bacterial

question 42

True/False

The whole-genome shotgun approach is useful for sequencing small bacterial genomes but has failed in the case of larger eukaryotic genomes such as those of Drosophila and human.

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