6) In your genetics lab, you are given 4 tubes of different samples of nucleic a

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6) In your genetics lab, you are given 4 tubes of different samples of nucleic acids BUT you do not know which sample is what type of nucleic acid. The possible samples are: human DNA, human mRNA, single stranded DNA from a parvovirus and double stranded RNA from a rotavirus. During your lab, you are able to analyze each sample for the nucleotide percentages. Your results are in the table below. Given this information, which sample tube most likely contains the human mRNA? Tube A 19 19 34 16 15 0 35 26 a)Tube 1 c)Tube 3 b)Tube 2 d)Tube 4

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In this case Tube- 2 sample is most likely contain the human mRNA because in human an entire DNA will not transcribe into the mRNA and also the newly synthesized mRNA undergo splicing, therefore, the size of mRNA decrease in nucleotide, therefore, the tube 2 is most likely to of Human mRNA

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