Recent research has suggested that some pseudogenes and non-protein-coding DNA code for RNAs that affect transcription of coding regions. This suggests that

A. non-protein-coding DNA has no function.
B. non-protein-coding DNA may regulate gene expression.
C. pseudogenes code for proteins.
D. pseudogenes have no function.


Answer: B

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