Craig Venter, a Leader of One of the Teams That

question 131

Multiple Choice

Craig Venter, a leader of one of the teams that sequenced the human genome, has now turned his attention to cataloging the microbial life of the oceans. His studies, which involve PCR amplification of microbial DNA and a sequencing of the PCR products, are part of a field of biology called

• A) functional genomics.
• B) transposon-tagging.
• C) proteomics.
• D) phenomics.
• E) metagenomics.

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