Bioinformatics Can Be Used to Scan for Short Sequences That

question 3

Multiple Choice

Bioinformatics can be used to scan for short sequences that specify known mRNAs, called ________.

• A) expressed sequence tags
• B) multigene families
• C) proteomes
• D) short tandem repeats

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