A CpG Island Is

question 140

Multiple Choice

A CpG island is:

• A)a stretch of nucleotides with many C bases adjacent to G bases in a small region near or in the promoter site of a gene.
• B)a stretch of nucleotides with many C bases adjacent to G bases found anywhere along a DNA strand.
• C)a stretch of nucleotides with many C bases adjacent to G bases found near bacterial operons.

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