You Are a Research Assistant in a Lab That Studies

question 16

Multiple Choice

You are a research assistant in a lab that studies nucleic acids.Your advisor gave you four tubes for analysis.Each of these tubes differs in its contents by the source of its nucleic acids: mouse cytoplasm (single-stranded RNA) , yeast nuclei (double-stranded DNA) , rotavirus (double-stranded RNA) , and parvovirus (single-stranded DNA) .The approximate nucleotide base composition of each sample is given in the table below. Which tube MOST likely contains rotavirus?

• A)Tube 1
• B)Tube 2
• C)Tube 3
• D)Tube 4

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