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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A goat can produce milk containing silk fibers when specific genes from a spider are inserted into the goat's genome. Which of the following reasons best describes why this is possible?

OpenStudy (happykiddo):

huh thats weird

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the spider's DNA integrates itself into the DNA of the goat, through mutations, and incorporates the silk production machinery gene into the goat's genome. Exactly how a virus integrates its RNA into the the host cell, and when cell reproduction occurs, the virus cells are also replicated since they are now a part of the genome of the "host" cell..

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