Proteins are the compounds that do most of the work in the cell.
Answer: Proteins
The CRISPR-Cas system is widely found in bacterial and archaeal genomes as a defense mechanism against invading viruses and plasmids [1–6]. The type II CRISPR-Cas system from Streptococcus pyogenes relies on only one protein, the nuclease Cas9, and two noncoding RNAs, crRNA and tracrRNA, to target DNA [7]
