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question 35

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
Suppose an experimenter becomes proficient with a technique that allows her to move DNA sequences within a prokaryotic genome.
-A researcher found a method she could use to manipulate and quantify acetylation and methylation in embryonic cells in culture. In one set of experiments using this procedure in Drosophila, she was readily successful in increasing acetylation of amino acids adjacent to methylated amino acids in histone tails. Which of the following results would she most likely see?

• A) increased chromatin condensation
• B) decreased chromatin condensation
• C) activation of histone tails for enzymatic function
• D) decreased binding of transcription factors
• E) inactivation of the selected genes

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