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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
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Chapter 14, Problem 6TY
The Ames test
- a. provides a way to determine if any type of cell has experienced a mutation.
- b. provides a way to determine if an agent is a mutagen.
- c. allows researchers to experimentally disrupt gene activity by causing a mutation in a specific gene.
- d. provides a way to repair mutations in bacterial cells.
- e. does all of the above.
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