Protein-coding genes directly affect our body's characteristics by ________.

A. determining which alleles will be dominant and recessive
B. specifying which bases in DNA can pair with which other bases
C. sending instructions for making proteins to the cytoplasm
D. dividing pairs of proteins during the process of meiosis


Answer: C

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