What advantage do cDNA libraries have over genomic libraries?

What will be an ideal response?


Eukaryotic genomes tend to have more noncoding regions. Therefore, cDNA libraries offer a way to eliminate the nontranscribed regions and to look at only the transcribed regions of the genome. cDNA libraries can also be made from specific tissues.

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