1. Your experiment has three different treatment groups, A, B, and C. Due to the lengthy process of tissue extraction, you can only isolate the RNA from two samples at the same time. You plan to have 4 replicates per group.

Give your answers to fill in the RNA isolation column of the metadata table. Since we can only prepare 2 samples at a time and we have 12 samples total, you will need to isolate RNA in 6 batches. Use the following values for each sample:

group1, group2, group3, group4, group5, or group6.

Make sure to answer so as to avoid confounding by batch of RNA isolation.