Disadvantages of continuous cell cultures include

A) they only grow for a limited number of generations.
B) the expense of preparation.
C) they may be significantly different genetically from the original source animal.
D) viruses do not reliably infect them.
E) they are both expense and have a limited number of division.


C

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