Question 13

(Multiple Choice)

Suppose that you fuse a mouse cell and a human cell, and then treats the cell with specific antibodies covalently linked to fluorescent dyes (antibodies linked to mouse proteins are green; antibodies linked to human proteins are red). What will the cell look like immediately after labelling?


A) The red and green fluorescent labels will be uniformly distributed across the entire membrane of the cell.
B) The cell will be half red and half green.
C) The red and green labels will be distributed in the cell in intermingled patches.
D) The red and green labels will flash in the cell intermittently.

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