You are interested in designing an experiment to test the hypothesis that frogs use the same genetic code as humans. Which of the following experiments would not give you useful data to test this hypothesis?

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The genetic code refers to the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins by living cells. Comparing the structures of tRNAs from frogs and humans (A), inserting a human gene into a frog cell (B), and inserting a frog gene into a human cell (C) would all directly test the functionality of the genetic code across these species. However, comparing nucleotide sequences of promoters (D) would not provide useful data for this hypothesis, as promoters are involved in the regulation of gene expression rather than the translation process governed by the genetic code.

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