Answer to Question #15740 in Microbiology for Bernie

Question

synthetic nucleic acids are useful as which of the following?
a. as primers for PCR
b. as antisense RNAs
c as DNA probes
d. as DNA probes an antisense RNAs
e. as DNA probes, primers, and antsense RNA;s

Answer 1

Answer e. Synthetic nucleic acids could be used in any form of nucleic acids which usually occur in the cells for some methods for defining DNA sequence, PCR, for defining specific sequence within a genome etc. Their usage is based on the property of base pairs complementarity.