You are in a laboratory attempting to identify a genetic defect responsible for a disease. You believe you have located the gene that results in a faulty protein—but you aren't sure! How could you be sure you have located a section of DNA that encodes for a protein?

Write down the sequence to see what amino acids might be linked together.

Allow the DNA to be transcribed to RNA and see what protein results.

Compare the faulty protein to the DNA.
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answer; i believe that the correct answer is(d) nondisjunction during meiosis;

"1. it should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. there are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but i can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.  

first, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. the pros involve better medical treatment. the cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. looking at dna markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. and ok, actually i suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency."

i think the answer is b.