In microbial ecology studies, the FISH technique identifies organisms based on

A) the presence of green fluorescent protein.
B) fluorescence of unique cofactors or pigments under certain wavelengths of UV light.
C) hybridization of a fluorescent probe to specific ribosomal RNA sequences.
D) the presence of luciferase.


Answer: C

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