In a Simple Bioinformatics Exercise, Students Are Asked to Locate

question 17

Short Answer

In a simple bioinformatics exercise, students are asked to locate the beginning of an ORF among the six possible reading frames for a hypothetical DNA molecule. The first step in their process should involve looking for what sequence?

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