Concept 23 A gene is a discrete sequence of DNA nucleotides.
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At the time Fred Sanger was working on a method to sequence DNA, many scientists were trying to sequence RNA. They believed that since RNA was smaller, it should be easier to sequence.
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It is technically more difficult to sequence RNA than DNA. Why do you think this is true?