When Seeking to Identify the Gene That Is Responsible for a Particular

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When seeking to identify the gene that is responsible for a particular cellular characteristic,scientists will generate cells carrying a recessive mutation that perturbs the characteristic of interest and then try to identify or "clone" the wild-type copy of that gene through functional complementation.This type of complementation could be described as:

• A)intensification of the recessive mutant trait via transferred plasmid DNA carrying the gene of interest.
• B)reversal (rescue)of the recessive mutant trait via transferred plasmid DNA carrying the gene of interest.
• C)identification of two different genes that both regulate the same cellular trait.
• D)a biochemical phenomenon where an enzymatic process is eliminated by plasmid DNA expressing a gene of interest.
• E)mutation of a gene of interest to complement an opposing biochemical pathway.

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