Critical Thinking Activities - Chapter 17

Question 1. Whenever anything dies, DNA and RNA are released into the environment. Ocean water is full of fragments of these molecules. Why are DNA and RNA not constantly seeping into all living organisms?

Question 2. For a mammalian gene to be expressed in a bacterium, what two provisions must be met?

Answers are available to instructors in the Instructor's Manual.
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