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Study Question 3 What is the minimum number of bases to specify the number of different amino acids found in protein? G A C T 1 base fixed length nonoverlapping
Study Question 3 What is the minimum number of bases to specify the number of different amino acids found in protein? 2 base, fixed length, nonoverlapping
Study Question 3 What is the minimum number of bases to specify the number of different amino acids found in protein? 3 base, fixed length, nonoverlapping
Growth of E. coli on a plate
Infection by phage T4
Growth of E. coli B + phage T4 Seed plate with E.coli B and phage T4 (not visible)
Growth of E. coli B + phage T4
rII region of phage T4 rII T4 rII + T4 rII - T4 DNA rIIA rIIBrIIA - rIIB
Distinguishing T4 rII + from rII - T4 rII + T4 rII - E. coli B x T4 rII + T4 rII - E. coli K( ) x T4 rII - cannot grow on E. coli K( )
Why is T4rII - defective? T4 rII - T4 rII + E. coli K( ) No infection Lysis
Crick et al frameshift experiment rIIA - rIIA + proflavin
How to explain frameshift results? Role of proflavin in experiment CACTCGGATACACTCGGATA C A C T C G ?? G A T A GTGAGCGTGAGC GTGAGCACGTGAGCAC Proflavin causes one base insertions (or deletions)
How to explain frameshift results? Wild type rIIA rIIA + … THE FAT CAT ATE THE BIG RAT... Wld type rIIA
How to explain frameshift results? Single frameshift rIIA - THE FAT CAR TAT ETH EBI GRA … … THE FAT CAT ATE THE BIG RAT...
How to explain frameshift results? Double frameshift rIIA - … THE FAT CAR TAT ETH EBI GRA … … THE FAT CAT ATE THE BIG RAT... … THE FAT CAR TAR TET HEB IGR …
How to explain frameshift results? Triple frameshift rIIA - … THE FAT CAR TAT ETH EBI GRA … … THE FAT CAT ATE THE BIG RAT... … THE FAT CAR TAR TET HEB IGR … … THE FAT CAR TAR TOE THE BIG...
Study Question 7 When will proflavin-induced mutation suppress?
Study Question 8 Results of frameshift experiment if variable length code? This is a variable length code This is a varitable length code Variable length code with GATC?