In 2010, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute sequenced and built the genome of a bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides, an organism that can cause the mammary glands of goats to swell. They constructed the genome—a 1.1-million- base-pair DNA sequence—using four necessary ingredients: the nucleotides adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine (the building blocks of DNA). A, T, G, and C, organized in different combinations, carry all instructions for every function of a cell.
1st attempt
What evidence confirmed that the JCVI had created artificial life?
Choose one or more:
A. The experiment was repeated successfully hundreds of times.
B. Colonies of blue, transformed M. capricolum organisms had grown, expressing the genes of artificial cells—those of M. mycoides.
C. Colonies of blue, transformed, synthetic M. mycoides cells had grown, expressing the genes of an existing organism, M. capricolum.
D. Colonies of both the existing organism, M. capricolum, and the synthetic cell, M. mycoides, were growing on the Petri dishes, side by side.