A sequence database such as GenBank could be used to do all of the following EXCEPT

A) Compare cow and human insulin protein sequences.
B) Construct a tree to determine the evolutionary relationships between various bird species.
C) Search for genes in a fruit fly that are similar to a human gene.
D) Compare patterns of gene expression in cancerous and non-cancerous cells.


D

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