The research team used their experiments to study the incorporation of labeled nucleotides into a culture of lymphocytes and found that the lymphocytes incorporated the labeled nucleotide at a significantly higher level after a pathogen was introduced
into the culture. They concluded that _____.
A) the presence of the pathogen made the experiments too contaminated to trust the results
B) their tissue culture methods needed to be relearned
C) infection causes lymphocytes to divide more rapidly
D) infection causes cell cultures in general to reproduce more rapidly
E) infection causes lymphocyte cultures to skip some parts of the cell cycle
Answer: C
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