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DNA Sequencing. You have isolated the DNA fragment shown below (which you actually analyzed in Problem 16-3, on page 464):
3′AGCGCTATAGCGCT5′
5′TCGCGATATCGCGA3′
As a training exercise for a young labmate, you provide her with this DNA and instruct her to perform a restriction digest. From knowledge of the specificity of the restriction enzyme used to produce the fragment, she knows the first four bases at the left end. She has prepared a single-stranded DNA primer of sequence 5′TCGC3′. You ask her to explain how she would determine the rest of the sequence using dye-labeled dideoxynucleotides, and you ask her to draw the gel pattern that would be observed, indicating the base sequence of the DNA in each band and the color pattern that would be detected by the camera in a DNA sequencing machine. What should her explanation contain, and what should her drawing look like?
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