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Enkidu Posted 17 years ago
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what we reasoned would happen was now the cell that took up this genetic material would become a factory for whatever the viral protein was that we had encoded..

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) that we had encoded. ) Think of "genetic material" in this context as "instructions that a cell can use to make a protein". CJ

  • ) that we had encoded.
  • ) Think of "genetic material" in this context as "instructions that a cell can use to make a protein".
  • CJ
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What we reasoned would happen was
(This is what we thought was going to happen:)

now the cell that took up this genetic material
(The genetic material (that we made) goes into the cell.)

would become a factory
(The cell begins to make something.)

for whatever the viral protein was
(The cell makes the same protein that a certain virus makes.)

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