What is the goal of functional genomics?

A. to determine the purpose of our genes and how they form a human being
B. to determine the genome sequence of other organisms useful to humans
C. to carry out gene therapy for human diseases
D. to determine how all the proteins within the cell interact
E. to determine all of the human genome sequence


Answer: A

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