You Are Part of a Research Team Trying to Sequence

question 3

Multiple Choice

You are part of a research team trying to sequence the genome of bacterial species X,which has a genome size of 2.2 Mb.You plan to use shotgun DNA sequencing and want to sequence at least 99% of the genome.How many Mb of DNA should you sequence?

• A)10.13
• B)4.61
• C)0.01
• D)9.02

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