What Is Metagenomics

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Multiple Choice

What is metagenomics?

• A) genomics as applied to a species that most typifies the average phenotype of its genus
• B) the sequencing of one or two representative genes from several species
• C) the sequencing of only the most highly conserved genes in a lineage
• D) sequencing DNA from a group of species from the same ecosystem
• E) genomics as applied to an entire phylum

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