Current Sequencing Technologies Have Major Advantages Over the Dideoxy Method

question 2

Multiple Choice

Current sequencing technologies have major advantages over the dideoxy method because they produce more sequence in less time and at less cost. Which of the following would provide further advantage?

• A)being able to produce finer analysis of smaller sequences
• B)the ability to produce primers for increasingly long sequences
• C)the ability to sequence noncoding regions
• D)sequencing very rare DNAs from degraded samples
• E)sequencing without the need to amplify the DNA

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