In Their Study of the Frequency of Mutations Induced by Exposure

question 212

Multiple Choice

In their study of the frequency of mutations induced by exposure to different classes of strong mitogens, researchers should focus their genomic analysis on "hot spot" regions, such as those

• A) that have a high frequency of thymines.
• B) in which cytosines have been modified to 5-methylcytosine.
• C) with long stretches of guanine nucleotides.
• D) where there are long repeats.
• E) that code for DNA polymerases.

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