9700/13 Biology May Jun 2013 Online Test | Cambridge AS and A Level MCQ

In an experiment, fluorescent dyes were used to label proteins on the outer surface of cell surface membranes. Living human cells were labelled with one colour of fluorescent dye and mouse cells with a different colour of fluorescent dye.
A human cell and a mouse cell are then fused to form a hybrid cell.
At first, the different fluorescent labels remain separate, but after 40 minutes they are distributed randomly across the hybrid cell surface membrane.
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