Suppose That Joe Scientist Fuses a Mouse Cell and a Human

question 50

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Joe Scientist fuses a mouse cell and a human cell, and then treats the cell with specific antibodies covalently linked to fluorescent dyes (antibodies linked to mouse proteins are green; antibodies linked to human proteins are red) . Forty minutes later, Joe Scientist looks at the fused cell. What will Joe Scientist observe?

• A)The red and green labels will be distributed in intermingled patches.
• B)The red and green fluorescent labels will be uniformly distributed across the entire membrane.
• C)The red and green labels will flash intermittently.
• D)The cell will be half red and half green.

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