Inquiry into Life
Inquiry into Life
15th Edition
ISBN: 9781259426162
Author: Sylvia S. Mader Dr., Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 26.3, Problem 2QTC
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To determine:

The reason a researcher might want to know what genes are being expressed in different cell types.

Given:

In multicellular organisms, nearly all cells have the same DNA, but different cell types express distinct proteins.

Introduction:

Even though nearly every cell in an organism's body contains the same set of genes, only a fraction of these genes is used in any given cell at any given time. It is this carefully controlled pattern of what is known as "gene expression" that makes a liver cell different from a muscle cell, and a healthy cell different from a cancer cell.

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