Use the Following Information to Answer the Questions Below

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
You have isolated a gene sequence from the mustard plant Arabidopsis and have BLAST searched the NCBI database. Your sequence hit several EST sequences that were identified as transcription factors. These sequences were found in E.coli, Chlamydomonas (a green algae) , yeast, mice, and humans and only had a few base pair differences.
-When you compared your sequence to the database, what were you practising?

A) good science
B) proteomics
C) bioinformatics
D) computer skills
E) shotgun research