The ENCODE Project Is Examining

question 8

Multiple Choice

The ENCODE project is examining

• A)the chicken genome,to learn more about dinosaurs,whose DNA was not preserved.
• B)the part of the human genome sequence that does not encode protein.
• C)the genes that account for our anatomy and physiology.
• D)a representative 1 percent of the human genome.

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