2.) a.) The best technique to use out of the list of possible choices would be the Northern Blot. …show more content…
Then I looked further at the characteristics of each technique and what exactly they look at. Northern blotting is performed by extracting RNAs and fractionating them based on size by gel electrophoresis. It is used very heavily in studies for gene expression such as in determinations of whether specific mRNAs are present in different cell or tissue types. This technique would allow for a side by side comparison between cells at different times or in different organisms which would be useful in this scenario to possibly determine characteristics of the alien