Question

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. What would annotation of the genome of this plant allow the company to determine?

A) Determine what proteins are produced?
B) Determine what mRNA transcripts are produced?
C) Identify genes and determine their functions.
D) Identify the location of mRNA within the plant cells.

Answer 1

identify genes and determine their functions.

Step-by-step explanation:

In modern day medicine, it is now deciphered that medicinal plants typically have essential oils in their tissues or seeds that prevent bacteria, molds, or other microbes from growing unlike in the olden days form of medicine. This quality confers antimicrobial properties. Common herbs like peppermint, basil, oregano, thyme, and rosemary have essential oils that prevent microbial growth. Oregano in particular has been used to help lessen the effects of bacterial infection by making a tea from its leaves. Some Chinese medicines too have the effects to reduce, cancer, reduce menopause in a female system and other powerful effects on the human system totally.