Suppose you are characterizing the DNA of a diploidplant species that had never been analyzed previously.You purify all the DNA that can be isolated from a seedling, and subject this DNA to high-throughput sequencinginvolving millions of reads of random DNA fragments.a. If you obtained on average 100 reads of a givensingle-copy nuclear DNA sequence, about howmany reads would you obtain for mtDNA? ForcpDNA? (Assume each mitochondrion has10 genome copies and that each choloroplast has20 genome copies. Assume also that the averagecell of this plant species has 1000 mitochondriaand 50 chloroplasts.)b. Beyond the number of reads, what other criteriawould allow you to conclude whether a particularread was of nuclear DNA, mtDNA, or cpDNA?
Suppose you are characterizing the DNA of a diploid
plant species that had never been analyzed previously.
You purify all the DNA that can be isolated from a seedling, and subject this DNA to high-throughput sequencing
involving millions of reads of random DNA fragments.
a. If you obtained on average 100 reads of a given
single-copy nuclear DNA sequence, about how
many reads would you obtain for mtDNA? For
cpDNA? (Assume each mitochondrion has
10 genome copies and that each choloroplast has
20 genome copies. Assume also that the average
cell of this plant species has 1000 mitochondria
and 50 chloroplasts.)
b. Beyond the number of reads, what other criteria
would allow you to conclude whether a particular
read was of nuclear DNA, mtDNA, or cpDNA?
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