You are a scientist who is using genomics to currently study a new bacterial species that no one has ever studied before. The following sequence is a piece of DNA within the coding region of a gene that you have recently sequenced.

 

How many of the 6 potential open reading frames are actually open in this sequence shown above?

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#SCPH28 | Zoology

Which of the following is characteristic of most terrestrial biomes?

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#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

Consider the following alignment of two DNA sequences:

                            AGTAAC

                            AA_ _AC

Assuming an affine gap scoring scheme of an identity matrix for substitution, a gap initiation penalty of 1 and a gap extension penalty of 0.1, the score of the alignment is _________

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#I Life Science/ Life Sciences Group – I-V

You have a freshly prepared 0.1 M sucrose (molecular mass 342) solution, which means ________.

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#SCPH05 I Biotechnology

E. coli grows from 0.10 to 0.50 kg dry cell m^-3 in 1 h. Assuming exponential growth during this period, evaluate the specific growth rate 

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#SCPH06 I Botany

When an allotetraploid (AABB) is backcrossed to one of its progenitor species (AA), a sterile progeny is produced.  The genomic composition of this sterile individual can be best represented by