We are given a random DNA sequence (each of the 4 bases has equal probability of occurring at each position in the sequence).A. What is the probability that three adjacent bases (a triplet) encode a stop codon?B. What is the probability that a given triplet is not a stop codon?C. What is the probability that neither of two adjacent triplets is a stop codon?D. What is the probability that none of 100 adjacent triplets are stop codons?E. Consider a single base insertion mutation between the 3rd and 4th codons in a natural gene that encodes a protein 100 amino acidslong. Is it more likely that the protein produced by this mutant allele will be shorter or longer than 100 amino acids long?

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We are given a random DNA sequence (each of the 4 bases has equal probability of occurring at each position in the sequence). A. What is the probability that three adjacent bases (a triplet) encode a stop codon? B. What is the probability that a given triplet is not a stop codon? C. What is the probability that neither of two adjacent triplets is a stop codon?

We are given a random DNA sequence (each of the 4 bases has equal probability of occurring at each position in the sequence). A. What is the probability that three adjacent bases (a triplet) encode a stop codon? B. What is the probability that a given triplet is not a stop codon? C. What is the probability that neither of two adjacent triplets is a stop codon?

Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)

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Chapter19: Genomes And Proteomes

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1ITD: Below is a sequence of 540 bases from a genome. What information would you use to find the...

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