Davis, Weintraub, and Lasser found three genes that are involved in muscle differentiation by

A. eliminating all the gene candidates that were expressed in both muscle and nonmuscle cells.
B. finding all the genes that were expressed in common between two different muscle cell lines.
C. cloning all the genes that were expressed in muscle cell lines to determine if any of these genes could cause nonmuscle cells to differentiate into muscle cells.
D. mutating genes expressed only in muscle cells to see if differentiation could be prevented.


A. eliminating all the gene candidates that were expressed in both muscle and nonmuscle cells.

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