An advantage of YACs over other vectors in cloning human genes is that they ____

a. are taken up more readily by recipient cells
b. have a higher capacity for carrying long DNA fragments
c. are less likely to trigger cell rejection
d. resemble a human chromosome more closely than do other vectors
e. carry long regions of human-like DNA


b

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