Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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ISBN: 9781259616020
Author: Robert J. Brooker Professor Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 20.2, Problem 1COMQ
During site-specific recombination that occurs in an antibody gene, the protein(s) that catalyze(s) the joining of V and J domains to each other is/are
a. RAG1 and RAG2.
b. nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) proteins.
c. RecA.
d. RecBCD.
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Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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