After finding a new medicinal plant,a pharmaceutical company decides to determine if the plant has genes similar to those of other known medicinal plants by annotating the genome of the new plant.Why does the company do this?

A)to determine what proteins are produced
B)to determine what mRNA transcripts are produced
C)to identify genes and determine their functions
D)to identify the location of mRNA within the plant cells
E)to determine the location of the plants introns