Multiple Choice
Why are conditional knockout animals desirable?
A) Genes that are essential for development can be deleted in the adult or only in specific tissues.
B) Animal cell lines with deletions can be created.
C) They are easier to create than standard knockout animals.
D) The mutations they create are more stable than those created by standard knockout techniques.
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