What Is the Relationship Between Methylation and Genomic Imprinting

question 4

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between methylation and genomic imprinting?

• A)Differential methylation of alleles in males and females resuilts in only one of the parental alleles being transcriptionally active in the offspring.
• B)Methylation of alleles silences the alleles from both parents, no alleles are transcriptionally active.
• C)Reversible methylation in the males alleles results in the males alleles only being expressed late in development.
• D)Reversible methylation in the females alleles results in the females alleles only being expressed late in development.

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