If You Want to Identify Protein-Coding Sequences, Why Is It

question 170

Multiple Choice

If you want to identify protein-coding sequences, why is it more efficient to study messenger RNAs than DNA?

• A)Because mRNAs have poly-A tails
• B)Because mRNAs do not contain the promoter sequence
• C)Because triplets of nucleotides in DNA do not indicate what amino acids will be present in a protein.
• D)Because processed mRNA does not contain introns.

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