Whitfield and colleagues (2003) found that nurse and forager bees showed significant differences in the expression of 2,200 of the 5,500 genes analyzed in the study. Their study made use of which of the following techniques?
A) hybridization
B) knocked in genes
C) knocked out genes
D) microarray analysis

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Whitfield and colleagues' study on the gene expression differences between nurse and forager bees utilized microarray analysis, a technique that allows researchers to examine the expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously to identify which genes are more or less active in different samples.

Whitfield and Colleagues (2003) Found That Nurse and Forager Bees