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#Question id: 13096


You are practicing designing primers that you can use in PCR reactions. You want your primers to allow you to amplify the sequence found below.
 

 
(a) 5’-ACTTCGATATGTCTAAAATAC-3’ and 5’- CGGTAGCGTCTCTGGTTAGCT -3’
(b) 5’-TGAAGCTATACAGATTTTATG-3’ and 5’-GCCATCGCAGAGACCAATCGA-3’
(c) 5’-GTATTTTAGACATATCGAAGT -3’ and 5’-AGCTAACCAGAGACGCTACCG-3’
You are asked to design a 15-nucleotide-long primer that could potentially hybridize to a portion of a specific mRNA that encodes the protein sequence N-Met-Ala-Tyr-Trp-Pro-C. How many different primers would you have to design in order to ensure that one of them will in fact hybridize along its full length to the mRNA?

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
  1. 64 different primers
  2. 32 different primers
  3. 36 different primers
  4. 16 different primers