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If you had 1,500 base pair pieces of random DNA and you
have to know how many of them had homology to known genes,
what would you do to determine that?

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If you had 1,500 base pair pieces of random DNA and you have to know how many of them had homology..

Answer / tina

I would use a BLASTX search against a known protein
database - such MCBI's NR database. I would then sort them
to determine how many were unique.

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