Question

You are studying the response of macrophages infected with the intracellular bacterium Brucella, specifically by examining which gene products are being expressed. You would be studying the macrophage ________ to obtain this information.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is - Transcriptome.

Explanation:

The transcriptome is the total sum of the mRNA or messenger RNA molecules that are produced by the genes of an organism. In this case, the genes that produce the transcriptome, first product of gene expression, are macrophage infected with the intracellular bacterium Brucella.

To get this information one has to study transcriptome or transcriptome analysis which is the complete set of the mRNA that are produced in a particular case under the specific case.

Thus, the correct answer is - transcriptome.