An advantage of using reverse transcriptase to prepare a gene for cloning is that

A) reverse transcriptase is more efficient than RNA polymerase.
B) the resulting DNA strand will lack exons.
C) reverse transcriptase is more efficient than DNA polymerase.
D) the resulting DNA strand will lack introns.


Answer: D

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