High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals That 30 New Mutations Have Occurred in the Coding

question 68

Multiple Choice

High-throughput sequencing reveals that 30 new mutations have occurred in the coding regions of genes in an individual lizard.If the coding regions of this lizard comprise 150 million nucleotides per haploid genome, what is the mutation rate per nucleotide?

• A) 2 per million
• B) 20 per billion
• C) 50 per billion
• D) 100 per billion
• E) 200 per billion

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