How can an amino acid sequence be used to design a gene-specific hybridization probe?
A) A portion of a polypeptide chain can be synthesized based on the amino acid sequence of the full protein.
B) A protein can be purified, it can be digested with proteases that cleave it at specific sites, and one of the peptide fragments can be used as a probe.
C) All possible nucleotide sequences that could encode a portion of the polypeptide can be synthesized and used as probes.
Answer: C
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