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The lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus has a genome 38 times larger than that of humans. Most of the DNA in this species is noncoding repetitive DNA. How could you create a library of clones that would let you compare just the genes in the lungfish to the genes in humans?

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You could generate cDNA libraries and compare the transcribed regions of the genome

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