Suppose That Under the Conditions of an Experiment, a Particular

question 171

Multiple Choice

Suppose that under the conditions of an experiment, a particular virus has an expected substitution rate of 1 per 2,000 nucleotides per generation and a genome size of 10,000 nucleotides.The virus has one generation per hour.Suppose you wanted to have populations of this virus to acquire approximately 100 substitutions.How long would you let the experiment run?

• A) 10 hours
• B) 20 hours
• C) 50 hours (2 days)
• D) 100 hours (4 days)
• E) 200 hours (8 days)

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