The ability of one person to produce over a million different antibody molecules does not require over a million different genes;rather,this wide range of antibody production is due to
A) alternative splicing of exons after transcription.
B) increased rate of mutation in the RNA molecules.
C) rearrangements of randomly selected V and J coding fragments in DNA.
D) expression of different cytosolic proteins in the thymus cells.
E) crossing over between the light and heavy chains of each antibody molecule during meiosis I.
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