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tkwill tkwill
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9 years ago Edited: 9 years ago, tkwill
Part D - Screening the plasmid library
The final step of the cloning procedure is to screen the plasmid library for clones that carry the vgp gene, shown in red below.
To accomplish the screening, researchers synthesize a single-stranded DNA probe using vgp mRNA as a template. What will be the sequence of nucleotides in the probe?
Drag the labels to their appropriate locations in the probe. Labels can be used once, more than once, or not at all.


This is the incorrect answer:
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Do i just need to reverse it?
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rsb
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9 years ago
There are only two things you need to know.

1. A probe works by base pairing to the DNA strand, so its sequence must be complementary to the DNA sequence of interest.
2. You need to know which strand is the strand of interest.

To tell the truth I'm not sure about the answer to question 2. Which one is the template strand? Either can be used as the template. I *think* the top strand is typically used as the template, but usually it's specified. Perhaps it's specified somewhere in your question or previously.

Anyway once you find your template strand, an mRNA was made from it so its sequence is complementary to the template strand. Then a probe was made using the mRNA as a template, so it is complementary to the mRNA, which in turn is complementary to the template strand (on the original DNA). So essentially what this means is that the probe will have the same sequence as the DNA template strand (the one you used to make the mRNA).

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