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Anonymous Annonn
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A year ago
Specific DNA sequences, which are very short, are hypothesized to be recognized by primase and are found in many places throughout the genome of a symbiotic bacteria of the Rhizobium bacteria. Because the Rhizobium symbiotic genome has 5.3 x 106 bp of DNA, and the average length of the Okazaki fragment is 1,250 nucleotides, approximately how many copies of this sequence are predicted to occur in the genome?
(Hint: What is the relationship between primase and Okazaki fragments?)


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A year ago
Assuming an average Okazaki fragment length of 1000 nucleotides, then 4.6 x 103 copies of this sequence would be needed as each Okazaki fragment is initiated with an RNA primer.
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