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(a)
To calculate: The average number of coat protein subunits that would have to be synthesized to produce a perfect viral coat.
Concept introduction: Translation is a process of producing polypeptides from the mRNA sequence. Mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein by replacing the residues is called substitution. Tomato bushy stunt virus generally affects the vegetable crops.
(b)
To calculate: The number that it actually contains if the viral coat was a single polypeptide chain with the same number of residues.
Concept introduction: Translation is a process of producing polypeptides from the mRNA sequence. Mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein by replacing the residues is called substitution. Tomato bushy stunt virus generally affects the vegetable crops.
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