Question: Determine what biological function do methylases perform in bacteria? What adaptive value do they have for a bacterium?
4. The following DNA is part of a gene that codes for a polypeptide of at least seven amino acids:
3' caattgattagtcagtcaatt gat 5'
5' gttaactaatcagtcagttaa cta 3'
a. Which strand includes an Open Reading Frame? Top (T) or Bottom (B)
b. Is this protein generated from the 1st, 2nd or 3rd frame?
c. Give the complimentary mRNA sequence that would be transcribed from this gene; label the 5' & 3' ends.
d) Give the seven amino acids that would be translated from the correct message; label the C & N ends.